Peter George Oliver Freund was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago.
12 Facts About Peter Freund
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Peter Freund made important contributions to particle physics and string theory.
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Peter George Oliver Freund was born, raised and educated in the Romanian city of Timisoara.
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Peter Freund obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna, with Walter Thirring as his thesis adviser.
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Since 1965 Peter Freund was on the faculty of the University of Chicago.
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Peter Freund lived in Chicago with his wife Lucy, a clinical psychologist.
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Peter Freund was one of the originators of two-component duality which gave the original impetus to what then developed into string theory.
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Peter Freund pioneered the modern unification of physics through the introduction of extra dimensions of space and found mechanisms by which the extra dimensions curl up.
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Peter Freund made significant contributions, to the theory of magnetic monopoles, to supersymmetry and supergravity, to number-theoretic aspects of string theory, as well as to the phenomenology of hadrons.
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Beyond his work in theoretical physics, Peter Freund was the author of the book A Passion for Discovery, World Scientific, Singapore, New York, London 2007.
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Peter Freund's stories appear in the online literary journal Exquisite Corpse and in other journals.
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The book deals with the way two friends, separated for half a century, view world events, arts, science, and ultimately try to catch up on two lives lived under very different conditions: Peter Freund managed to leave Romania for the West, while Radu Ciobanu lived through the horrors of the communist dictatorship.