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Walter Thirring (April 29, 1927 – August 19, 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. He is the son of the physicist Hans Thirring, co-discoverer of the Lense-Thirring frame dragging effect in general relativity.〔Thirring, H. Über die Wirkung rotierender ferner Massen in der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. ''Physikalische Zeitschrift'' 19, 33 (1918). (On the Effect of Rotating Distant Masses in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation)〕〔Thirring, H. Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: "Über die Wirkung rotierender Massen in der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie". ''Physikalische Zeitschrift'' 22, 29 (1921). (Correction to my paper "On the Effect of Rotating Distant Masses in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation")〕〔Lense, J. and Thirring, H. Über den Einfluss der Eigenrotation der Zentralkörper auf die Bewegung der Planeten und Monde nach der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. ''Physikalische Zeitschrift'' 19 156-63 (1918) (On the Influence of the Proper Rotation of Central Bodies on the Motions of Planets and Moons According to Einstein's Theory of Gravitation)〕 ==Life and career== Walter Thirring was born in Vienna, Austria, where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1949 at the age of 22. In 1959 he became a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Vienna, and from 1968 to 1971 he was head of the Theory Division and director at CERN. Besides pioneering work in quantum field theory, Walter Thirring devoted his scientific life to mathematical physics. He is author of one of the first textbooks on quantum electrodynamics as well as of a four volume course in mathematical physics. In 2000, he received the Henri Poincaré Prize of the International Association of Mathematical Physics.〔(The Henri Poincaré Prize ).〕 Walter Thirring authored ''Cosmic Impressions'', Templeton Press, Philadelphia and London, in 2007, and in that book he sums up his feelings about the scientific discoveries made by modern cosmology: In the last decades, new worlds have been unveiled that our great teachers wouldn’t have even dreamed of. The panorama of cosmic evolution now enables deep insights into the blueprint of creation…. Human beings recognize the blueprints, and understand the language of the Creator…. These realizations do not make science the enemy of religion, but glorify the book of Genesis in the Bible. His memoirs were published in 2010 as ''The Joy of Discovery: Great Encounters Along the Way'' by World Scientific Publishing Company. He recollects encounters with scientists like Einstein, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Pauli and others as well as his collaborations with Murray Gell-Mann and Elliott Lieb.() 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Thirring」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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