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Franz Wegner, born on June 15, 1940, is an emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg, known for his work in statistical physics, particularly in phase transitions and the renormalization group. He developed the Wegner exponent and foundational lattice gauge theoretical models, earning several accolades including the Lars Onsager Prize in 2015 and the Max Planck medal in 1986. Wegner completed his doctorate in 1968 and has published significant works in the field, contributing to the understanding of critical properties in physics.

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Franz Wegner, born on June 15, 1940, is an emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg, known for his work in statistical physics, particularly in phase transitions and the renormalization group. He developed the Wegner exponent and foundational lattice gauge theoretical models, earning several accolades including the Lars Onsager Prize in 2015 and the Max Planck medal in 1986. Wegner completed his doctorate in 1968 and has published significant works in the field, contributing to the understanding of critical properties in physics.

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Franz Wegner

Franz Joachim Wegner (born 15 June 1940) is


emeritus professor for theoretical physics at the Franz Wegner
University of Heidelberg. Born 15 June 1940
Alma mater Forschungszentrum Jülich
Technical University Munich
Education Known for Lattice gauge theory
Wegner exponent
Franz Wegner attained a doctorate in 1968 with thesis
Wegner estimate
advisor Wilhelm Brenig at the Technical University Wegner orbital model
Munich with the thesis, "Zum Heisenberg-Modell im
Awards Lars Onsager Prize (2015)
paramagnetischen Bereich und am kritischen Punkt"
Max Planck medal (1986)
("On the Heisenberg model within the paramagnetic
Walter Schottky Prize (1976)
range and at the critical point").
Scientific career
Subsequently, he did research with a post-doctoral Fields Statistical Physics
position at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in the group of
Institutions University of Heidelberg
Herbert Wagner and at Brown University with Leo
Brown University
Kadanoff.[1] Since 1974 he is a professor at
Doctoral Wilhelm Brenig
Heidelberg.[2]
advisor
Other academic Leo Kadanoff
Research advisors Herbert Wagner

The emphasis of Wegner's scientific work is statistical physics, in particular the theory of phase
transitions and the renormalization group.[3][4] The eponymous "Wegner exponent" is of fundamental
importance for the purpose of describing corrections to asymptotic scale invariance in close proximity to
phase transitions. Wegner also "invented" the foundational lattice gauge theoretical models. The method
developed from Wegner's foundational work is nowadays intensively used in simulations of quantum
chromodynamics.

Accolades
Wegner won the Walter Schottky prize in 1976 for his work on phase transitions and elementary
particles.[2] He has also been elected to the Heidelberger Academy of Sciences and won the Max Planck
medal among other awards and recognitions. He won the Lars Onsager prize from American Physical
Society in 2015 for his contributions to Statistical mechanics.[5]

Selected works of Wegner


Wegner, F. J. (1972). "Corrections to scaling laws". Physical Review B. 5 (11): 4529.
Bibcode:1972PhRvB...5.4529W (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972PhRvB...5.4529W).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.5.4529 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevB.5.4529).
Wegner, F. (1979). "Mobility edge problem – continuous symmetry and a conjecture".
Zeitschrift für Physik B. 35 (3): 207. Bibcode:1979ZPhyB..35..207W (https://ui.adsabs.harva
rd.edu/abs/1979ZPhyB..35..207W). doi:10.1007/BF01319839 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FB
F01319839). S2CID 119653249 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119653249).
Wegner, F. (1971). "Duality in Generalized Ising Models and Phase Transitions without Local
Order Parameter". J. Math. Phys. 12 (10): 2259–2272. Bibcode:1971JMP....12.2259W (http
s://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1971JMP....12.2259W). doi:10.1063/1.1665530 (https://doi.or
g/10.1063%2F1.1665530).

Reprinted in Claudio Rebbi (ed.), Lattice Gauge Theories and Monte Carlo Simulations,
World Scientific, Singapore (1983), p. 60–73. (Abstract. (http://www.tphys.uni-heidelberg.d
e/~wegner/Abstracts.html#12))

See also
Wegner's scaling function

References
1. Kadanoff, L. P.; Wegner, F. J. (1971). "Some Critical Properties of the Eight-Vertex Model".
Phys. Rev. B. 4 (11): 3989–93. Bibcode:1971PhRvB...4.3989K (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.ed
u/abs/1971PhRvB...4.3989K). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.4.3989 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FP
hysRevB.4.3989).
2. "German Physical Society gives theoretical-physics awards", Physics Today, 29 (9): 69,
1976, Bibcode:1976PhT....29i..69. (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976PhT....29i..69.),
doi:10.1063/1.3023914 (https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.3023914).
3. Kadanoff, Leo P. (1999), From order to chaos II: essays, critical, chaotic, and otherwise (http
s://books.google.com/books?id=uFsnv27G5M8C&pg=PA161), Series on Nonlinear Science,
vol. 32, World Scientific, p. 161, Bibcode:1999fotc.book.....K (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
abs/1999fotc.book.....K), ISBN 978-981-02-3434-8.
4. Cao, Tian Yu (2004), Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (https://books.googl
e.com/books?id=d0wS0EJHZ3MC&pg=PA93), Cambridge University Press, p. 93,
ISBN 978-0-521-60272-3.
5. "Prize Recipient" (https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=
Wegner&first_nm=Franz&year=2015). aps.org. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

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