Dirk Kreimer (born 12 July 1960) is a
German
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physicist
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who pioneered the
Hopf-algebraic approach to
perturbative
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quantum field theory
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with
Alain Connes
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and other co-authors. He is currently
Humboldt professor at the department of mathematics of
Humboldt University
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The university was established by Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick W ...
in
Berlin
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, where he teaches the courses of ''Quantum Field Theory'' (I and II) and ''Hopf Algebras and the Renormalization Group''.
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Living people
1960 births
21st-century German physicists
Boston University faculty
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