Background
Bleuler was born in Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland on 23 September 1912.
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Konrad Bleuler
Edit Profilephysicist university professor
Education
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich.
Career
He is known for his work on the quantisation of the photon, the Gupta–Bleuler formalism. He received his doctorate for the mathematical work titled "On the Rolle"s theorem for the operator Δu + λu and related properties of the Green"s function" from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich in 1942. His thesis advisor was Michel Plancherel.
From 1960 to 1980 he was a Professor at the University of Bonn, where he founded the Institute of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, which is now the Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics.
Even after his retirement, he was active and remained there until his death. 1971 Bleuler organized the first "International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics" and since then he had been organizing the conference regularly.
The last one was the 19th Conference in 1990 held at Rapallo. In 1993, at the 22nd Conference in his honor a "Bleuler Medal" awarded.
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Nationality
Switzerland