Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Julius Wess (December 5, 1934 August 8, 2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess Zumino model and Wess Zumino Witten model in the field of supersymmetry. He was also a recipient of the Max Planck medal, the Wigner medal, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and of several honorary doctorates. Julius Wess was born in Oberwölz Stadt, a small town in the Austrian state of Styria. He received his Ph.D. in Vienna where he was a student of Hans Thirring. His Ph.D. examiner was acclaimed quantum mechanics physicist Erwin Schrödinger.