Walter Thirring#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 678 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
Walter Thirring passed away August 19, 2014.
Positions Held
- 1968 - 1971 Head of the Theory Division and director at CERN
- 1959 Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Thirring model in quantum field theory
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum electrodynamics
Honours and Awards
- 1967 Eötvös Medal
- 1969 Erwin Schrödinger Prize
- 1978 Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society
- 1978 Prize of the city of Vienna
- 1993 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 1993 Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in Gold
- 1994 Honorary doctorate from the Comenius University in Bratislava
- 2000 Henri Poincaré Prize of IAMP (International Association of Mathematical Physics)
- Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle
- Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Rome
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
