Rolf Hagedorn

Rolf Hagedorn
Rolf Hagedorn, 1981
Born20 July 1919
Died9 March 2003 (2003-03-10) (aged 83)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Known forHagedorn temperature, statistical bootstrap model, self-consistency principle in high energy physics
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical particle physics, Statistical physics
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Physics, CERN
Doctoral advisorRichard Becker

Rolf Hagedorn (20 July 1919 – 9 March 2003) was a German theoretical physicist who worked at CERN.[1][2] He is known for the idea that hadronic matter has a "melting point".[3] The Hagedorn temperature is named in his honor.[4][5]

  1. ^ Ericson, Torleif; Rafelski, Johann (September 2003). "People: Rolf Hagedorn". CERN Courier. 43 (7): 45.
  2. ^ Rafelski, Johann (2004). "Rolf Hagedorn (1919–2003)". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 30 (1). doi:10.1088/0954-3899/30/1/E02. ISSN 0954-3899.
  3. ^ Ericson, Torleif; Rafelski, Johann (September 2003). "The tale of the Hagedorn temperature". CERN Courier. 43 (7): 30–33.
  4. ^ Peter Tyson. "Absolute Hot". NOVA. PBS. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
  5. ^ Ericson, Torleif; Jacob, Maurice; Rafelski, Johann; Satz, Helmut (1995), "Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn", in Letessier, Jean; Gutbrod, Hans H.; Rafelski, Johann (eds.), Hot Hadronic Matter, vol. 346, Springer US, pp. 1–12, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-1945-4_1, ISBN 978-1-4613-5798-8