Friedrich Beck

Friedrich Beck
Beck as featured in the "Men Who Made a New Science" article published in the June 2008 Special Issue "Synaptic Quantum Tunnelling" of NeuroQuantology
Born
Friedrich Hans Beck

(1927-02-16)16 February 1927
Died20 December 2008(2008-12-20) (aged 81)
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Particle physics
Quantum field theory
Biophysics
InstitutionsTechnische Universität Darmstadt
Doctoral advisorMax von Laue

Friedrich Hans Beck (16 February 1927 – 20 December 2008) was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.