Rolf Hagedorn | |
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Born | 20 July 1919 |
Died | 9 March 2003 | (aged 83)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
Known for | Hagedorn temperature, statistical bootstrap model, self-consistency principle in high energy physics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical particle physics, Statistical physics |
Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Physics, CERN |
Doctoral advisor | Richard 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]