Rolf Hagedorn (1919--2003)
Rolf Hagedorn (1919--2003)
Rolf Hagedorn studied particle spectra and developed the statistical theory of meson production. He found that hot hadronic matter has a maximum temperature which later he understood to be the melting point of hadrons. After his retirement in 1984 he remained an active emeritus researcher, and followed the developments in …