Peter Freund

Peter G. O. Freund
Born(1936-09-07)September 7, 1936
Timișoara, Kingdom of Romania
DiedMarch 6, 2018(2018-03-06) (aged 81)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican and Romanian
Alma materPolitehnica University of Timișoara, Romania
University of Vienna, Austria
Known forTwo-component duality
Higher-dimensional unification
Freund–Rubin compactification
Superstrings from 26 dimensions
p-adic strings
econophysics
SpouseLucy Freund
ChildrenPauline and Caroline
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Doctoral advisorWalter Thirring
Notable studentsWilliam Cottrell[1]

Peter George Oliver Freund (7 September 1936, Timișoara – 6 March 2018, Chicago) was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago.[2] He made important contributions to particle physics and string theory. He was also active as a writer.

  1. ^ Los Angeles Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 5, May 2005, Emmis Communications, p. 198: "During Freund's career heading the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago, Cottrell's paper on p-adic strings was the only undregraduate thesis he supervised."
  2. ^ "Peter Freund, particle physicist and fiction writer, 1936-2018". UChicago News. 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2018-03-14.