Norbert Dragon

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Norbert Dragon is a retired Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. He studied Physics at Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, where he completed his PhD under Julius Wess in 1977. These were the years when Wess and Zumino were establishing and expanding Supersymmetry and Supergravity. Among his fellow students at the same institute were Martin Sohnius, Richard Grimm, Klaus Sibold, and Hermann Nicolai.

He worked as an assistant to Berthold Stech at Universität Heidelberg from 1979 to 1986. Since 1988, he has been a Professor at the Institut für Theoretische Physik at Universität Hannover. He retired in 2016.

He enjoyed teaching beginners as much as he did teaching PhD students, covering advanced topics such as Supersymmetry and BRST-symmetry, to which he has contributed research papers. In his teaching, he aimed to find everyday examples for abstract mathematical concepts. For instance, a shopping list and commodity prices exemplify high-dimensional vector spaces and their duals. Similarly, holes in trousers and patches of cloth have areas of opposite signs because the areas cancel out when mending holes. Thus, the concept of positive and negative areas becomes commonplace and comprehensible.