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Peter G. O. Freund | |
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| Born | September 7, 1936 |
| Died | March 6, 2018 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | American and Romanian |
| Alma mater | Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania University of Vienna, Austria |
| Known for | Two-component duality Higher-dimensional unification Freund–Rubin compactification Superstrings from 26 dimensions p-adic strings econophysics |
| Spouse | Lucy Freund |
| Children | Pauline and Caroline |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Thirring |
| Notable students | William Cottrell[1] |
Peter George Oliver Freund (7 September 1936, Timișoara – 6 March 2018, Chicago) was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago.[2] He made important contributions to particle physics and string theory. He was also active as a writer.
- ^ Los Angeles Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 5, May 2005, Emmis Communications, p. 198: "During Freund's career heading the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago, Cottrell's paper on p-adic strings was the only undregraduate thesis he supervised."
- ^ "Peter Freund, particle physicist and fiction writer, 1936-2018". UChicago News. 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
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