Aneesur Rahman

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Aneesur Rahman (born August 24, 1927 in Hyderabad , † June 6, 1987 in Minneapolis ) was an Indian physicist.

Rahman studied physics and mathematics at Cambridge University and received a PhD in theoretical physics from Leuven University . From 1960 he was at the Argonne National Laboratory , where he stayed until 1985 when he became a professor at the University of Minnesota and was at the university's Supercomputer Institute.

He is considered to be one of the founders of molecular dynamics, the simulation of the behavior of a set of molecules with computers. In 1964 he simulated the behavior of 864 argon molecules, interacting according to the Lennard-Jones potential on a CDC 3600 computer.

In the 1980s he and David Callaway developed the microcanonical ensemble method in lattice theory .

In 1977 he received the Irving Langmuir Award .

The American Physical Society has been awarding the Aneesur Rahman Prize, named after him, for achievements in computer physics since 1993 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sunil K. Sinha et al .: Aneesur Rahman . In: Physics Today Volume 41, Issue 8 (August 1988), ISSN  0031-9228 , P. 97 ( DOI: 10.1063 / 1.2811542 )
  2. ^ Correlations in the Motion of Atoms in Liquid Argon, Physical Review, Volume 136, 1964, A405-A411
  3. ↑ Callaway, Rahman Microcanonical Ensemble Formulation of Lattice Gauge Theory , Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol 49, 1982, 613-616. Callaway, Rahman Lattice gauge theory in the microcanonical ensemble , Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 28, 1983, pp. 1506-1514
  4. ^ Rahman Prize
personal data
SURNAME Rahman, Aneesur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hyderabad
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1987
Place of death Minneapolis