Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885 - 1955)

* 9 November 1885, † 9 December 1955

Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was born on 9 November 1885 in Elmshorn (near Hamburg), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. From 1923-38 Weyl evolved the concept of continuous groups using matrix representations. With his application of group theory to quantum mechanics he set up the modern subject. Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl died on 9 December 1955 in Zürich, Switzerland.