H. Dieter Zeh

H. Dieter Zeh was born in Braunschweig and studied physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig and nuclear physics at the University of Heidelberg under J. Hans D. Jensen. At Heidelberg, he also investigated alpha particle formation in nuclei with and Zeh investigated the topic for his PhD thesis under Mang. Between 1964 and 1965, Zeh was a research assistant at California Institute of Technology and in 1965 and between 1967 and 1968 at the University of California, San Diego. He later became a professor in Heidelberg. ==Research==

Zeh is known for his work on decoherence, formally described in his 1970 seminal paper. Zeh also dedicated a large part of his work to quantum gravity. In 1986, he argued that gravity assumes classical properties due to environmental degrees of freedom, such as the presence of gravitational waves. ==Bibliography==