Julius Wess
Julius Erich Wess (5 December 1934 – 8 August
2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as Julius E. Wess
the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–
Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry
and conformal field theory. He was also a recipient of
the Max Planck medal, the Wigner medal, the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Heineman Prize,
and of several honorary doctorates.
Life and work Born 5 December 1934
Oberwölz Stadt, Styria
Wess was born in Oberwölz Stadt, a small town in the Died 8 August 2007 (aged 72)
Austrian state of Styria.In 1957 [1]he received his Hamburg, Germany
Ph.D. in Vienna, where he was a student of Hans Nationality Austrian
Thirring. His Ph.D. examiner was acclaimed quantum
Alma mater University of Vienna
mechanics physicist Erwin Schrödinger. After working
at CERN in Switzerland and at the Courant Institute of Known for Wess-Zumino model
New York University, United States, he became a Wess–Zumino–Witten model
professor at the University of Karlsruhe. In later life, Wess–Zumino consistency
Wess was professor at the Ludwig Maximilian condition
University of Munich. After his retirement he worked Thirring–Wess model
at DESY in Hamburg. Coleman–Wess–Zumino
construction for nonlinear
His doctoral students include Hermann Nicolai. symmetries
Awards Leibniz Prize (1986)
Julius Wess died at the age of 72 in Hamburg,
Max Planck Medal (1987)
following a stroke.[2]
Heineman Prize (1988)
Wigner medal (1992)
His early work centered on effective field
Scientific career
theories for hadrons, especially the
interactions connecting pions and kaons with Fields Theoretical physics
protons and neutrons. His 1969 papers with Doctoral Hans Thirring
Sidney Coleman, Curtis Callan, and Zumino advisor
detailed the mathematical structure of Doctoral Hermann Nicolai
theories with spontaneously broken students
symmetries. The papers laid much of the
foundation for phenomenological hadron
physics, but they have had even wider
application. They are still being cited today.
Wess’s most highly cited work is the 1971
paper with Zumino on anomalies in effective fie
effects violate classical symmetries, giving rise to
neutral pion into two photons. Wess and Zumino
Lagrangians must obey certain consistency relation
terms are now named after them.
Despite the fame of that early work, Wess will alw
he and Zumino constructed the first renormalizab
four dimensions and exhibited its nonrenormalizat
an explosion of interest in supersymmetry, a co
modern theoretical physics. His textbook on super
standard reference after 25 years.[3]
Publications
Wess, Julius; Bagger, Jonathan (1983). Supersymmetry and supergravity. Princeton, N.J:
Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08326-6. OCLC 9081798 (https://search.worldcat.or
g/oclc/9081798).
Wess, Julius; Bagger, Jonathan (1983). Supersymmetry and supergravity, Revised and
Expanded Edition. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02530-4.
OCLC 1151346932 (https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1151346932).
Scientific articles authored by Julius Wess recorded in INSPIRE-HEP.[4]
References
1. "Julius Wess - The Mathematics Genealogy Project" (https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.ph
p?id=24199). www.mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
2. "Julius Wess, 72, Theoretical Physicist, Is Dead" (https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/worl
d/europe/27wess.html). The New York Times. 27 August 2007. Retrieved 16 December
2021.
3. Bagger, Jonathan; Nicolai, Hermann (2009). "Julius Erich Wess" (https://doi.org/10.1063%2
F1.3074272). Physics Today. 62 (1): 67. Bibcode:2009PhT....62a..67B (https://ui.adsabs.har
vard.edu/abs/2009PhT....62a..67B). doi:10.1063/1.3074272 (https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.30
74272).
4. "Wess, Julius – Profile – INSPIRE-HEP" (http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.E.Wess.1).
inspirehep.net. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
Further reading
Julius Wess Nachruf (https://badw.de/fileadmin/nachrufe/Wess%20Julius.pdf)
Die Fakultät für Physik trauert um ihren Kollegen Prof. Dr. Julius Wess (https://www2.physik.
uni-muenchen.de/aus_der_fakultaet/07_wess_pdf2.pdf) Archived (https://web.archive.org/w
eb/20211216183026/https://www2.physik.uni-muenchen.de/aus_der_fakultaet/07_wess_pdf
2.pdf) 16 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine
Wess Nachruf HU Berlin (https://www.physik.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuell/dokumente/wess-nachr
uf.pdf)
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