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born 1936 United States

Peter Freund (born September 7, 1936) is a Professor Emeritus of theoretical physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago.

United States
Physicists

Also known as: Freund, Peter

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Scientific collaborations are akin to marriages, or temporary marriages. Their breakup is not unlike a divorce and rarely avoids acrimony.

Our understanding of the four basic concepts of Physics -- space, time, matter and force -- has undergone radical change in the course of work on unification, starting with Maxwell's unification of electricity with magnetism, all the way to present day string theory. What started as four independent concepts, with space and time postulated and the possible forms of matter and force arbitrarily chosen, now appear as different aspects of a rich and novel dynamically determined structure.

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