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Peter Grassberger | |
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Born | 17 May 1940 | (age 84)
Nationality | Austrian |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of Calgary, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
Doctoral advisor | Walter Thirring, H. Pietschmann |
Peter Grassberger (born 17 May 1940) is a retired professor who worked in statistical and particle physics. He made contributions to chaos theory, where he introduced the idea of correlation dimension, a means of measuring a type of fractal dimension of the strange attractor.