Rudolf Haag

Rudolf Haag
Rudolf Haag in 1992
Born(1922-08-17)17 August 1922
Died5 January 2016(2016-01-05) (aged 93)
NationalityGerman
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FieldsPhysics
Institutions
ThesisDie korrespondenzmäßige Methode in der Theorie der Elementarteilchen (1951)
Doctoral advisorFritz Bopp
Doctoral students

Rudolf Haag (17 August 1922 – 5 January 2016) was a German theoretical physicist, who mainly dealt with fundamental questions of quantum field theory. He was one of the founders of the modern formulation of quantum field theory and he identified the formal structure in terms of the principle of locality and local observables. He also made important advances in the foundations of quantum statistical mechanics.[2]

  1. ^ Rudolf Haag (13 January 2016); Buchholz, Detlev; Fredenhagen, Klaus (2016). "Nachruf auf Rudolf Haag". Physik Journal (in German). 15 (4): 53. (Obituaries).
  2. ^ "Henri Poincaré Prize citation". International Association of Mathematical Physics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.