Detlev Buchholz
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Detlev Buchholz is a theoretical physicist at Gottingen University. He investigates quantum field theory, especially algebraic quantum field theory. His contributions include the concept of infraparticles.
Using the methods of Tomita-Takesaki theory he obtained the split property, a strong result about the locality of the theory, from nuclearity conditions of the theory [1] [2].
In 2008 he won the Max Planck Medal. It is awarded annually by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German:German Physical Society

