!!!Thirring, Walter

b. Vienna, April 29, 1927, physicist; son of Hans  Thirring. Studied 
physics at the University of Vienna, pursued his scientific career at 
various institutions in Europe and the USA (including the Max Planck 
Institute, Goettingen, ETH Zurich, Berne University, Institute of 
Advanced Study in Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
Cambridge, USA), since 1959 professor of theoretical physics at the 
University of Vienna, from 1968 to 1971 also Director of the 
Department of Theoretical Physics of the European Organisation for 
Nuclear Research (CERN, Centre europeen de recherches nucleaires). 
Awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1993.

!Works
Einfuehrung in die Quantenelektrodynamik, 1955; Lehrbuch der 
mathematische Physik, 4 vols., 1977-80.


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