Kurt Symanzik (November 21, 1923 – October 25, 1983) was a German physicist working in quantum field theory.
[1] Symanzik was born in Lyck (Ełk), East Prussia, and spent his childhood in Königsberg.
He started studying physics in 1946 at Universität München but after a short time moved to Werner Heisenberg at Göttingen.
In 1954 he earned his PhD for his thesis The Schwinger functional in quantum field theory.
[2] After teaching at Princeton and CERN he gained a full professorship at the New York Courant Institute, which he left 1968 for the Hamburg DESY.