Walter Thirring

Walter E. Thirring
Born(1927-04-29)29 April 1927
Vienna, Austria
Died19 August 2014(2014-08-19) (aged 87)
Vienna, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Alma materUniversity of Innsbruck (Ph.D., 1949)
Known forThirring model
Thirring–Wess model
Lieb-Thirring inequality
ParentHans Thirring (father)
AwardsErwin Schrödinger Prize (1969)
Max Planck Medal (1978)
Henri Poincaré Prize (2000)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
Doctoral advisorFelix Ehrenhaft
Doctoral studentsPeter C. Aichelburg
Peter Freund
Peter Grassberger

Walter Eduard Thirring (29 April 1927 – 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named.[1] He was the son of the physicist Hans Thirring.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Thirring, Walter (1958). "A Soluble relativistic field theory?" (PDF). Annals of Physics. 3 (1): 91–112. Bibcode:1958AnPhy...3...91T. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(58)90015-0.
  2. ^ Thirring, H. Über die Wirkung rotierender ferner Massen in der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Physikalische Zeitschrift 19, 33 (1918). (On the Effect of Rotating Distant Masses in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation)
  3. ^ Thirring, H. Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: "Über die Wirkung rotierender Massen in der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie". Physikalische Zeitschrift 22, 29 (1921). (Correction to my paper "On the Effect of Rotating Distant Masses in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation")
  4. ^ Lense, J. and Thirring, H. Über den Einfluss der Eigenrotation der Zentralkörper auf die Bewegung der Planeten und Monde nach der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Physikalische Zeitschrift 19 156-63 (1918) (On the Influence of the Proper Rotation of Central Bodies on the Motions of Planets and Moons According to Einstein's Theory of Gravitation)