Hans-Jürgen Borchers (24 January 1926,
Hamburg
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– 10 September 2011,
Göttingen
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) was a German mathematical physicist at the
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen who worked on
operator algebra
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The results obtained in the study o ...
s and
quantum field theory
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. He introduced
Borchers algebra
In mathematics, a Borchers algebra, Borchers–Uhlmann algebra, or BU-algebra is the tensor algebra of a vector space, often a space of smooth test functions. They were studied by , who showed that the Wightman distributions of a quantum fiel ...
s and the
Borchers commutation relations and
Borchers classes in quantum field theory. He was awarded the
Max Planck Medal
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in 1994. Among his students is
Jakob Yngvason
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.
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20th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German physicists
1926 births
2011 deaths
Winners of the Max Planck Medal
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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