Alexander Unzicker

Alexander Unzicker (born March 13, 1965 in Munich, West Germany), is a German school teacher and author.
Life
Alexander Unzicker studied physics and law in Munich and received his doctorate in neuroscience. Unzicker works as a school teacher in Munich. He is the son of chess grandmaster Wolfgang Unzicker.
Publications
His book, Vom Urknall zum Durchknall - die absurde Jagd nach der Weltformel was awarded the science book of the year award in Germany in 2010. In this book, Unzicker criticizes modern physics theories, particularly string theory, as lacking experimental verifiability. In his 2013 book, Bankrupting Physics: How Today's Top Scientists are Gambling Away Their Credibility, which he co-authored with Sheilla Jones, he argues against the standard models of physics contending that they are no longer credible because of their complexity. The authors call for a return to physics' experimental roots.
Bankrupting Physics met with a hostile response from the physics community. Columbia physicist Peter Woit, who is discussed in the book, wrote in his review of it:
In his book "Bankrupting Physics" he has made on page 180 the following observation: "Can an entire intellectual elite like string theorists have permanently devoted themselves to foolishness? Can string theory really be nonsense if the best and brightest are convinced of it? Yes, it can. Big brains can be brainwashed, as well as little ones. Take, for instance the medieval theologians. Weren't they the elites back then? Didn't the brightest guys of that era stall science for centuries?" He wants to say that string theory has become a religion in the guise of science, as was the scholastic.
In 2014, Unzicker gave a lecture in Austria called "The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee".

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