Klaus Hepp
Swiss-German theoretical physicist and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich · Switzerland · On the map · Scientists · Born 1936 · age 89
Klaus Hepp is a German-born Swiss theoretical physicist working mainly in quantum field theory.
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Hepp studied mathematics and physics at Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and at the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, where, in 1962, with Res Jost as thesis first advisor and Markus Fierz as thesis second advisor, he received a doctorate for the thesis and at ETH in 1963 attained the rank of Privatdozent. From 1966 until his retirement in 2002 he was professor of theoretical physics there. From 1964 to 1966 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Hepp was also Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University and was at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) near Paris.
