Background
Haag, Rudolf was born on August 17, 1922 in Tubingen, Germany. Son of Albert and Anna (Schaich) Haag.
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The new edition provided the opportunity of adding a new chapter entitled "Principles and Lessons of Quantum Physics". It was a tempting challenge to try to sharpen the points at issue in the long lasting debate on the Copenhagen Spirit, to assess the significance of various arguments from our present vantage point, seventy years after the advent of quantum theory, where, after ali, some problems appear in a different light. It includes a section on the assumptions leading to the specific mathematical formalism of quantum theory and a section entitled "The evolutionary picture" describing my personal conclusions. Alto gether the discussion suggests that the conventional language is too narrow and that neither the mathematical nor the conceptual structure are built for eter nity. Future theories will demand radical changes though not in the direction of a return to determinism. Essential lessons taught by Bohr will persist. This chapter is essentially self-contained. Some new material has been added in the last chapter. It concerns the char acterization of specific theories within the general frame and recent progress in quantum field theory on curved space-time manifolds. A few pages on renor malization have been added in Chapter II and some effort has been invested in the search for mistakes and unclear passages in the first edition. The central objective of the book, expressed in the title "Local Quantum Physics", is the synthesis between special relativity and quantum theory to gether with a few other principles of general nature.
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professor of theoretical physics
Haag, Rudolf was born on August 17, 1922 in Tubingen, Germany. Son of Albert and Anna (Schaich) Haag.
Diploma in physics, Stuttgart University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Munich University, 1951. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Marseille, 1979.
Lecturer Munich University, Germany, 1954-1956. Visiting professor Princeton University, New Jersey, 1957-1959. Professor physics University Illinois, Urbana, 1960-1966, Hamburg University, Germany, 1966-1987, professor emeritus Germany, since 1987.
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Author: Local Quantum Physics, 1992. Contributor articles to professional journals. Editor Communications in Mathematics Physics, 1964-1990.
Member German Physical Society (Max Planck medal 1970), International Association Mathematics Physics (Henry Poincaré prize 1997).
Married Kaethe Fues, July 19, 1948 (deceased January 1991). Children: Albert, Friedrich, Elisabeth, Ulrich. Married Barbara Klie, April 27, 1992.