Julius Wess (1934–2007) was a theoretical physicist, one of the discoverers of the supersymmetry as a possible symmetry in physical models (with Bruno Zumino, and independently from Akulov and Volkov). With Zumino he introduced Wess-Zumino sigma model. From around 1990, he was working also on quantum groups and noncommutative geometry with a view toward physics on noncommutative space-times.
On chiral perturbation theory:
Sidney Coleman, Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. I, Phys. Rev. 177, 2239 (1969) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2239)
Curtis Callan, Jr., Sidney Coleman, Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. II, Phys. Rev. 177, 2247 (1969) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2247)
Introducing the WZW term of chiral perturbation theory/quantum hadrodynamics which reproduces the chiral anomaly of QCD in the effective field theory of mesons and Skyrmions:
Introducing supersymmetry for quantum field theory on 4d spacetime:
On supergravity formulated on super spacetime supermanifolds (“superspace”):
Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Superspace formulation of supergravity, Phys. Lett. B 66 (1977) 361-364 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90015-6]
Richard Grimm, Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, A complete solution of the Bianchi identities in superspace with supergravity constraints, Nuclear Phys. B 152 (1979) 255-265 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90102-0]
On supersymmetry and supergravity on superspace:
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