Walter Thirring
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Walter Thirring (born 1927-04-29) is an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. He is son of the physicist Hans Thirring, co-discoverer of the Lense-Thirring frame dragging effect in general relativity.
Walter Thirring was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied physics from 1949 till 1958. Since 1959 he was professor for theoretical physics at the University of Vienna, and from 1968 to 1971 he was director of the Theory Group at CERN.
Besides pioneering work in quantum field theory, Walter Thirring devoted his scientific life to mathematical physics. He is author of one of the first textbooks on quantum electrodynamics as well as of a four volume course in mathematical physics.
In 1969, he received the Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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