© Reinhold A. Bertlmann
After graduating from high school, Bertlmann studied technical physics at the Vienna University of Technology and theoretical physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he completed his doctorate in 1974 with Herbert Pietschmann’s thesis on the influence of superconvergence relations on vector-dominated processes. He worked as a research assistant in Vienna, at JINR in Dubna and at CERN. After his habilitation in theoretical physics in 1981 with the thesis Duality between resonances and asymptotia at the University of Vienna, he held visiting professorships in Marseille, at the University of Paris-South and at the CNRS, Orsay. From 1987 until his retirement in 2010, he was an associate professor at the University of Vienna. He continues to hold lectures and seminars there. Reinhold Bertlmann has been married to the artist Renate Bertlmann since 1969.
Bertlmann’s research in quantum physics includes generalized Bell’s inequalities, entanglement, decoherence, and their geometric properties. He also deals with anomalies in quantum field theory.
Bertlmann joined CERN in 1978 and worked there with J. S. Bell. Bertlmann always wore different colored socks. In 1981 Bell wrote his article Bertlmann’s socks and the nature of reality (Bertlmann’s socks and the nature of reality).