Hans-Jürgen Borchers

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Hans-Jürgen Borchers (24 January 1926, Hamburg – September 10, 2011, Göttingen) was a mathematical physicist at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen who worked on operator algebras and quantum field theory. He introduced Borchers algebras and the Borchers commutation relations and Borchers classes in quantum field theory. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1994. Among his students is Jakob Yngvason.

Selected publications

Borchers, Hans-Jürgen (1996), Translation group and particle representations in quantum field theory, Lecture Notes in Physics. New Series m: Monographs 40, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-49954-1, ISBN 978-3-540-61140-0, MR 1401343

References

Fredenhagen, Klaus (1987), "A biographical sketch of Hans-Jürgen Borchers", in Jørgensen, Palle E. T.; Muhly, Paul S., Operator algebras and mathematical physics (Iowa City, Iowa, 1985), Contemp. Math. 62, Providence, R.I.: Amer. Math. Soc., pp. 5–8, ISBN 978-0-8218-5066-4

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 76758360 LCCN: n96031529 ISNI: 0000 0001 0990 1188 GND: 104671076 MGP: 108750

Persondata
Name	Borchers, Hans-Jurgen
Alternative names
Short description	Physicist
Date of birth	24 January 1926
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
Date of death	10 September 2011
Place of death	Göttingen, Germany

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