Klaus Hepp | |
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 Klaus Hepp (1997) | |
| Born | (1936-12-11)11 December 1936 (age 88) |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich |
| Awards | Max Planck Medal (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | Res Jost |
| Doctoral students | Jürg Fröhlich Konrad Osterwalder José Fernando Perez Walter F. Wreszinski |
Klaus Hepp (born 11 December 1936) is a German-born Swiss theoretical physicist working mainly inquantum field theory. Hepp studied mathematics and physics atWestfälischen Wilhelms-Universität inMünster and at the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH Zurich), where, in 1962, withRes Jost as thesis first advisor andMarkus Fierz as thesis second advisor, he received a doctorate for the thesis ("Kovariante analytische Funktionen“) and at ETH in 1963 attained the rank ofPrivatdozent. From 1966 until his retirement in 2002 he was professor of theoretical physics there. From 1964 to 1966 he was at theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, New Jersey. Hepp was also Loeb Lecturer atHarvard University and was at theInstitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) nearParis.
Hepp worked on relativistic quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics, and theoretical laser physics.[1] In quantum field theory he gave a complete proof of theBogoliubov–Parasyuk renormalization theorem (Hepp andWolfhart Zimmermann, called in their honor the BPHZ theorem).[2] Since a research stay 1975/6 atthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) he also worked in neuroscience (for example, reciprocal effect between movement sensors, visual sense and eye movements with V. Henn in Zurich).
In 2004 he received theMax Planck Medal.
