Christopher Pethick

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Christopher John Pethick (born February 22, 1942 ) is a British physicist who deals with quantum mechanical many-body theory.

Pethick studied at Oxford University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1962 and his PhD in 1965. He was then a post-doctoral student at Magdalen College, Oxford University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he became a professor in 1970. In the same year he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1973 he also became a professor at Nordita , of which he was director from 1989 to 1994. Today he is at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (with which Nordita was closely connected before moving to Stockholm).

Pethick deals theoretically with low-temperature quantum liquids and gases such as liquid helium or Bose-Einstein condensates , with superconductors and the behavior of nuclear matter at high density with corresponding applications in astrophysics, for example in supernovae or neutron stars (for example, their cooling) .

In 2008 he received the Lars Onsager Prize with Gordon Baym and Tin-Lun Ho and in 2011 the Hans A. Bethe Prize . In 2013 he was elected an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . For 2015 he was awarded the Feenberg Medal . Pethick has been a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences since 1977 and of the Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature since 2003 . Since 1985 he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

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  1. ^ Cooling of neutron stars , Reviews of Modern Physics, 1992, p. 1133
  2. ^ Christopher Pethick wins Onsager Prize. In: nbi.ku.dk. October 31, 2007, accessed on January 30, 2018 (English): "awarded in part [...] for work on the properties of ultra cold atomic gases. [...] Also mentioned in the citation is earlier work on the traditional quantum liquids, helium-3 and helium-4, for which many of the basic concepts used to understand quantum phenomena in ultra cold gases were developed. "
  3. ^ Christopher Pethick receives the prestigious Hans Bethe Prize. In: nbi.ku.dk. October 5, 2010, accessed on January 30, 2018 (English): "for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of nuclear matter at very high density, the structure of neutron stars, their cooling and the related neutrino processes and astrophysical phenomena"
  4. ^ Christopher Pethick receives the Feenberg Award. In: nbi.ku.dk. August 15, 2015, accessed on January 30, 2018 (English): "... for his pioneering contributions and profound insights into many-body physics across diverse physical systems, ranging from ultracold atoms and quantum liquids to dense nuclear matter in neutron stars and stellar collapse. "
  5. ↑ Pethick, Christopher. In: royalacademy.dk. Accessed January 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ APS Fellow Archive.
  7. ^ Member History: Christopher John Pethick. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 4, 2018 .
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SURNAME Pethick, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pethick, Christopher John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1942