Professor Holger Bech Nielsen
Holger Bech Nielsen, Ph.D.
is a Danish theoretical physicist, professor at the Niels Bohr
Institute,
at the University of Copenhagen, where he started studying physics in
1961.
Holger has made original contributions to theoretical particle physics
specifically in the field of string theory. Independently of Nambu and
Susskind, he was the first to propose that the Veneziano model was
actually a theory of strings and this is why he is considered among the
fathers of string theory. He was awarded the highly esteemed Humboldt
Prize in 2001 for his scientific research.
Several physics concepts are named after him, e.g.
Nielsen-Olesen Vortex
and the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem for representing chiral fermions
on the lattice. In the original Dual-Models, which later would be
recognized as the origins of String Theory, the Koba-Nielsen variables
are also named after him and his collaborator Ziro Koba.
He is known in Denmark for his enthusiastic public lectures on physics,
his latest being at University of Southern Denmark in Odense (March 10,
2005), Kulturhuset i Skanderborg (January 26, 2006), at EUCVest in
Esbjerg (March 21, 2006), and at Regensen in Copenhagen (April 12,
2006). In July 2008 he lectured for children at the summer camp for the
Danish Association of Gifted Children.
In a series of papers
published in 2009,
he and fellow physicist Masao Ninomiya proposed a radical theory to
explain the seemingly improbable series of failures preventing the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) from becoming operational. The collider is
intended to be used to find evidence of the hypothetical Higgs boson
particle. They suggested that the particle might be so abhorrent to
nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the
collider before it could create one, in a fashion similar to the time
travel Grandfather paradox.
Holger coauthored
Test of Effect from Future in Large Hadron Collider;
A Proposal,
Search for Effect of Influence from Future
in Large Hadron Collider,
Card game restriction in LHC can only be
successful!,
Chaos and Scaling in Classical Non-Abelian Gauge Fields,
Why do we live in 3+1 dimensions?,
Neutrino Mass Matrix Model with many Quantum charges
and No SUSY,
Chaos, Scaling and Existence of a Continuum Limit in Classical
Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory, and
Z2 as the Topological Origin of
B+L Violation in the Hot Electroweak Theory.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Watch
Holger Bech Nielsen – Tidsrejser,
Holger Bech Nielsen on the Higgs Particle – With Subtitles,
Videnskab eller Gud? Del 1 – Holger Bech Nielsen, and
Videnskab eller Gud? Del 2 – Holger Bech Nielsen.
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