Karl Kraus
German theoretical physicist
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- PhD Physics University of Vienna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl Kraus was a German theoretical physicist who made major contributions to the foundations of quantum physics. Life and work Kraus was born in 1938 in Hohenelbe/Giant Mountains, today Vrchlabí. After the war, he grew up in Elsterwerda and attended local schools. He studied physics from 1955 to 1960 at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin . He graduated in 1962 with a thesis about Lorentz's theory of gravity, carried out under the supervision of Kurt Just. Kraus then joined as an assistant to Günther Ludwig at the University of Marburg, where he qualified in 1966. In 1971, he accepted a professorship at the Institute of Physics of the University of Würzburg, where he established a mathematical physics working group on the topic of the foundations of quantum theory. In 1980 Kraus spent a sabbatical year at UT Austin with John Archibald Wheeler, Arno Böhm, George Sudarshan, William Wootters, and Wojciech Zurek.
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