Julius Wess

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Julius Wess (born 1934-12-05) is a physicist and co-inventor of the Wess-Zumino model and Wess-Zumino-Witten model in the field of supersymmetry. He is also a recipient of the Max Planck medal, the Wigner medal , the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and received an honorary Ph.D. from the Humboldt University Berlin .

Wess was born in Austria and received his Ph.D. in Vienna where he was a student of Hans Thirring. His Ph.D. examiner was acclaimed quantum mechanics physicist, Erwin Schrödinger. In later life, Wess was Professor Emeritus at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

[edit] Publications

  • Julius Wess, Jonathan Bagger: Supersymmetry and Supergravity, Princeton Series in Physics, December 1991, ISBN 0-691-08556-0
  • Julius Wess, Jonathan Bagger: Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Revised Edition, Princeton Series in Physics, March 1992, ISBN 0-691-02530-4


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