Jürg Fröhlich

Jürg Martin Fröhlich (born 4 July 1946 in Schaffhausen) is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist.He is best known for introducing rigorous techniques for the analysis of statistical mechanics models, in particular continuous symmetry breaking (infrared bounds),[1] and for pioneering the study of topological phases of matter using low-energy effective field theories.[2] In 1965 Fröhlich began to study mathematics and physics at Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich.He is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[3] In 1978, Fröhlich gave an invited address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki (“On the mathematics of phase transitions”) and in 1994 at the plenary talk of the ICM in Zurich (“The FQHE, Chern–Simons Theory and Integral Lattices”).
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