Brosl Hasslacher

Brosl Hasslacher (born May 13, 1941 in New York City , † November 11, 2005 in Española (New Mexico) ) was an American physicist who dealt with quantum field theory and elementary particle physics, gravitational physics, nanotechnology and nonlinear dynamics ( chaos theory ).

Life

Hasslacher studied at Harvard University (bachelor's degree in 1962) and received his doctorate in 1971 under Daniel Z. Freedman and CN Yang at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . He then went to the University of Illinois , Caltech , the Institute for Advanced Study , CERN and IHES before becoming a visiting scientist at the Center of Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1981 , where he worked with Mitchell Feigenbaum . From October 1982 he was part of the laboratory (theory department) and in 1994 he founded the Institute of Physical Science there. In 2003 he retired from Los Alamos.

In 1999 he took a break in Los Alamos to set up the Molecular Electronics Corporation with four other scientists and after leaving the laboratory in 2004 he was one of the founders of Nanostar Inc., a nanotechnology company . With the engineer Mark Tilden ( beam robotics , characterized by the use of simple analog computers instead of digital controls) he applied non-linear dynamics in robotics.

Hasslacher is known for his work in the 1970s with Roger Dashen , André Neveu on quantum field theories of extended objects as models for hadrons .

He also dealt with quantum gravity (spin networks and simulation with lattice gas models, induced gravity, etc.).

In 1986, together with Uriel Frisch and Yves Pomeau, he developed a lattice gas model of the Navier-Stokes equation in hydrodynamics ( FHP model ).

He was married to the French woman Marie Cazenave and had two sons and a daughter.

Fonts

with Yves Pomeau, Uriel Frisch: Lattice gas automata for the Navier Stokes equation , Physical Review Letters, Volume 56, 1986, p. 1505

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Dashen, Hasslacher, Neveu Non perturbative methods and extended hadron models in field theory , Part 1,2,3, Physical Review, Volume 10, 1974, pp. 4114, 4130, 4138

personal data
SURNAME	Hasslacher, Brosl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	November 11, 2005
Place of death	Española (New Mexico)

[1] Dashen, Hasslacher, Neveu Non perturbative methods and extended hadron models in field theory , Part 1,2,3, Physical Review, Volume 10, 1974, pp. 4114, 4130, 4138