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Fritzsch, Harald was born on February 10, 1943 in Zwickau, Germany. Son of Erich and Marianne (Demmler) Fritzsch.
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Today it is known that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann — who coined the name "quark" from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake — and by George Zweig, who then worked at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions — Quantum Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 — the forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of eight gluons. On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers. Readership: Academics and researchers interested in elementary particle physics.
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The internationally renowned physicist Harald Fritzsch deftly explains the meaning and far-flung implications of the general theory of relativity and other mysteries of modern physics by presenting an imaginary conversation among Newton, Einstein, and a fictitious contemporary particle physicist named Adrian Haller. In this entertaining and involving account of relativity, Newton serves as the skeptic and asks the questions a modern reader might ask. Einstein himself does the explaining, while Haller explains the new developments that have occurred since the general theory was proposed.
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In this book, one of the world's leading physicists for the first time provides the general reader with a comprehensive, authoritative, and immensely readable account of modern cosmology's view of the universe. Writing with an infectious enthusiasm that charms as it informs, Dr. Fritzsch describes, simply and with rare clarity, the eight steps of cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to the present, and he ends with an informed scenario of the distant future, with the universe ending in a sea of photons, neutrinos, and (perhaps) other particles.
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Fritzsch, Harald was born on February 10, 1943 in Zwickau, Germany. Son of Erich and Marianne (Demmler) Fritzsch.
He studied Physics in Leipzig from 1963 to 1968. After fleeing to West Germany, he continued his studies in Munich where he worked together with Werner Heisenberg and finished his Doctor of Philosophy under supervision of Heinrich Mitter.
After his completing his education in Zwickau 1961, he became Soldier of the Nationale Volksarmee of the German Democratic Republic. In 1970 Fritzsch visited the Aspen Center of Physics, where he met Murray Gell-Mann. They started a collaboration, first in Aspen, later at the California Institute of Technology. In 1971 they introduced the concept of colour charge quantum number which allowed them in collaboration with William A. Bardeen to explain the decay rate of pions.
In the fall of 1971 Fritzsch and Gell-Mann moved to Geneva in Switzerland, where they worked together at European Organization of Nuclear Research. They proposed a gauge theory for the strong interaction which nowadays is called Quantumchromodynamics.
In September 1972 they moved back to Caltech. In 1975 Fritzsch published a paper together with Peter Minkowski in which they firstly proposed the symmetry group SO(10) as the symmetry of the grand unified theory which has become a standard theory.
In 1976 Fritzsch moved to European Organization of Nuclear Research. After working for one year at the University of Wuppertal and the University of Bern, Fritzsch became professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1980
Fritzsch worked also on "composite models" of leptons and quarks, mass matrices of quarks and leptons, weak decays of heavy quarks, cosmology and the fundamental constants of physics. He retired in 2008.
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Member German Physical Society (science public medal 1994), Hochschulverband, European Physical Society, German-American Academy Council.
Married Brigitte Goralski, February 15, 1971. Children: Oliver, Patrick.