Peter Freund

Peter George Oliver Freund (7 September 1936, Timişoara – 6 March 2018, Chicago) was a Romanian-born American professor of theoretical physics. He worked at the University of Chicago.^[2] He made important works to particle physics and string theory. He was also active as a writer.

Peter G. O. Freund
Born	(1936-09-07)September 7, 1936 Timişoara, Kingdom of Romania
Died	March 6, 2018(2018-03-06) (aged 81) Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Institutul Politehnic Timişoara, Romania University of Vienna, Austria
Known for	Two-component duality Higher-dimensional unification Freund–Rubin compactification Superstrings from 26 dimensions p-adic strings econophysics
Spouse	Lucy Freund
Children	Pauline and Caroline
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Walter Thirring
Notable students	William Cottrell[1]