Biography:Harald Fritzsch

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Harald Fritzsch
Fritzsch
Fritzsch
Born 10 February 1943
Zwickau, Germany
Died 16 August 2022
Munich, Germany


Known for Quantum chromodynamics; color charge; quark theory

Harald Fritzsch (1943-2022) was a German theoretical physicist known for work on quarks, color charge, and quantum chromodynamics.

Quarks and color

Fritzsch, with Murray Gell-Mann and Heinrich Leutwyler, helped formulate quantum chromodynamics as the gauge theory of the strong interaction. The theory describes quarks and gluons using color charge and explains why isolated quarks are not observed under ordinary conditions.

His work belongs to the theoretical history behind quarks and gluons.

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Author: Harold Foppele