About the scientific life of Harald Fritzsch
Peter Minkowski University of Bern
”Harald Fritzsch Symposium” 6. June , 2008 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich 1
List of contents
1 ’Strong interactions are mediated by a gauge theory’ 3
... a few remarks on the pre-history of this idea
2 From our collaboration 19
3 From Caltech becoming a Professor first in Wuppertal 1977 theninBern1978 26
4 From Bern to the LMU in Munich 1980 – 27
5 Outlook 31
References 32 2
1 ’Strong interactions are mediated by a gauge theory’
... a few remarks on the pre-history of this idea and about QCD
As far as I know from you , Harald , this idea which gave birth to QCD , was strongly impressed in your mind , when you succeeded after obtaining the diploma in physics from the University of Leipzig, to escape through the black sea to Turkey in 1968 . But how these thoughts developed may be the topic of Murray Gell-Mann’s contribution and thus I shall only report here about times long past, starting 1953 with Wolfgang Pauli, and going backwards to about 1937 to more general ideas of Elie´ Cartan on ’connections’ . → 3
Figure 1: ’Many letters, some answers’ ( → ) . 4