Daniel Gillespie
Dan Gillespie | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  American |
| Alma mater | Rice University Johns Hopkins University |
| Known for | Gillespie algorithm |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist and mathematical chemist |
| Institutions | University of Maryland NAWS China Lake |
| Academic advisors | Jan Sengers |
Daniel Thomas Gillespie, is a physicist and mathematical chemist who pioneered numerical methods in stochastic calculus, principally the Gillespie algorithm in 1977[1]. His work is concerned with stochastic processes, particularly specializing in stochastic methods for modeling chemical kinetics.
Education
Gillespie received his B.A. in Physics from Rice University in 1960, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1968 with a thesis entitled Some Aspects of Resonance Production and Diffraction-Dissociation in 5.44 GeV/c K+p Interactions.
Career
From 1968-71 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park's Institute for Molecular Physics, where he worked under Jan Sengers.
From 1971-2001 he worked as a Research Physicist in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Division of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. Later at that institution he was Head of the Applied Mathematics Research Group, and finally a Senior Scientist in the Research Department.
In 2001 he retired and now works as a consultant for the California Institute of Technology and the Molecular Sciences Institute[2].
Books
- A Quantum Mechanics Primer (1970)
- Markov Processes: An Introduction for Physical Scientists (1992)
- Biography of radio comedy writer Tom Koch (2004)