Andrzej Jerzy Buras (Polish pronunciation: ; born 26 October 1946 in

Warsaw, Poland Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a grea ...

) is a Polish-born Danish

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experi ...

, professor emeritus at the

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(TUM).

Scientific career

He received his master's degree in theoretical physics at the

Warsaw University The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializat ...

in 1971, and emigrated to Denmark in the same year. One year later, he received his PhD at the

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in Copenhagen. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute until 1975. After a fellowship in the

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theory group from 1975–1977 he was first a visitor and then a staff member in the

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theory group from 1977 till 1982. He then became staff member of the

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in Munich (1982–1988). In 1988 finally he was appointed full professor in the Physics Department of the TUM. After his retirement in 2012 he moved to the

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where he is leading the focus group 'Fundamental Physics'. Buras is known for his early work on strong-interaction effects (

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) in deep-inelastic electron-proton and neutrino-proton scattering (1977–1980), which led to the commonly used MS-bar scheme for QCD calculations. But his most important contributions (1983-now) are in the field of weak decays of mesons; these include high order calculations of QCD effects in most important decays, the phenomenology of

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and of quark flavour physics in the

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and in several

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models.

Awards

* 2024: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics * 2020:

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* 2012: TUM Emeritus of Excellence * 2010:

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

Advanced Grant (2011–2016) * 2010:

Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger ( ; ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or , was an Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum field theory, quantum theory. In particul ...

Visiting Professorship,

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* 2008–2011:

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Senior Fellowship at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study * 2007: Smoluchowski-Warburg Medal of the German and Polish Physical Societies * 2004: Distinguished Lecturer of the Alberta University * Foreign member of the

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(Warsaw, Poland) * Foreign member of the

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(Cracow, Poland) * Ordinary Member of the

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(Munich)

References

External links

Scientific publications of Andrzej J. Buras
on

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