Walter Greiner

Walter Greiner (29 October 1935 – 6 October 2016) was a German

Greiner was born on 29 October 1935, in Neuenbau, district of Sonneberg, Germany.^[1]

He studied physics at the University of Frankfurt (

Greiner has been a visiting professor to many universities and laboratories, including Florida State University, the University of Virginia, the University of California, the University of Melbourne, Vanderbilt University, Yale University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In 2003, with Wolf Singer, he was the founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), and gave lectures and seminars in elementary particle physics. He died on 6 October 2016 at the age of 80.^[3]

After Greiner's death, several books and articles were published as tributes to him.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Graduate students

His doctoral students include Berndt Müller, Johann Rafelski^[10] and Horst Stöcker.

The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder was among his students.

Awards

Greiner has received numerous scientific awards, including the

• W. Greiner (2004). Classical Mechanics: Point Particles and Relativity. Springer.
  ISBN 978-0-387-95586-5
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• W. Greiner (2010). Classical Mechanics: Systems of Particles and Hamiltonian Dynamics (2nd ed.). Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-642-03433-6
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• W. Greiner; D.A. Bromley (1998). Classical Electrodynamics. Springer.
  ISBN 978-0-387-94799-0
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• W. Greiner; L. Neise; H. Stöcker (2001). Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Springer.
  ISBN 978-0-387-94299-5
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• W. Greiner; D.A. Bromley (2000). Quantum Mechanics: An introduction (4th ed.). Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-67458-0
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• W. Greiner (2001). Quantum Mechanics: Special chapters. Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-60073-2
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• W. Greiner; B. Müller; D.A. Bromley (2001). Quantum Mechanics: Symmetries (2nd ed.). Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-58080-5
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• W. Greiner; D. A. Bromley (2000). Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (3rd ed.). Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-67457-3
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• W. Greiner; J. Reinhardt (1996). Field Quantization. Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-59179-5
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• W. Greiner; J. Reinhardt (2008). Quantum Electrodynamics (4th ed.). Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-87560-4
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• W. Greiner; S. Schramm; E. Stein; D.A. Bromley (2006). Quantum Chromodynamics (3rd ed.). Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-48534-6
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• W. Greiner; B. Müller (2009). Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions. Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-87842-1
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• W. Greiner; J. Maruhn; D.A. Bromley (1996). Nuclear Models. Springer.
  ISBN 978-3-540-59180-1
  .