Robert Schrader
Robert Schrader (12 September 1939 – 29 November 2015)[1] was a German theoretical and mathematical physicist and professor of the Free University of Berlin.His Diplom thesis Die Charaktere der inhomogenen Lorentzgruppe (The characters of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group) was supervised by Harry Lehmann and Hans Joos.In 1965 he went to ETH Zurich, where he worked as an assistant and received his doctorate (Promotion) in 1969 under the supervision of Klaus Hepp and Res Jost.He was a visiting scientist in 1974 and again in 1980 at the IHÉS at Paris, in 1976 in Harvard, in 1979 at CERN,[7] for the academic year 1986/87 at the Institute for Advanced Study, and in 1989 at the ETH.[8][9] Arthur Jaffe suggested to his postdocs Osterwalder and Schrader that they study the work on the Euclidean formulation of quantum field theory (QFT) done by Kurt Symanzik and Edward Nelson.