David Pines

David Pines (born June 8, 1924 in Kansas City , Missouri , † May 3, 2018 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American theoretical physicist who studied solid-state and many-body theory, and founding director of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM ) of the University of California , now an internationally active institution for research into emergent phenomena, especially in the fields of biology , chemistry and physics .

Live and act

Pines studied at the University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor 1944) and Princeton University (Master 1948), where he received his doctorate in 1950. He was then at the University of Pennsylvania , from 1952 to 1955 Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and then from 1955 to 1958 at Princeton, where he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1958/59 . In 1959 he became professor of physics and electrical engineering at the UIUC, where he stayed until 1995 and was the founding director of its Center for Advanced Study from 1967 to 1970. Pines was u. a. Visiting professor 1962/63 and 1978 in Paris ( Collège de France ), Leiden (Lorentz Professor), Caltech, 1970 in Copenhagen (Nordita), 1970 and 1978 at the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1996/97 at Los Alamos National Laboratory , 1998 in Stockholm and 2000 at Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1989 to 2002 he was a (non-resident) professor at the Santa Fe Institute (which he co-founded, from 1982 to 1996 he was vice chairman of its Science Board). In 1968 he initiated an exchange program between the USA and the USSR. From 1968 to 1972 he was vice-president of the Aspen Center for Physics . From the founding of the institute in 1999 to 2012 he was co-director of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter , since then he has been chief evangelist there .

Pines was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1960 . He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1962/63 and 1970/71. In 1985 he received the Dirac Medal of the University of New South Wales (Dirac Lecture) and in 1985 the first Feenberg Medal . For 2016 he was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize . He was a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (since 1973), the Russian and Hungarian Academy of Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1980).

In the 1950s, Pines a. a. with electron gas (partly with David Bohm and Philippe Nozières ), electron-phonon interaction in metals (with John Bardeen ), application of the theory of superfluids to atomic nuclei (partly with Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson ), boson gas (with Hugenholtz ) and superfluids Helium (partly with Gordon Baym , John Bardeen). With these investigations he established himself as one of the pioneers of many-body theory. From the 1980s he also turned to astrophysics , using many-body methods to research the equation of state of matter in neutron stars (similar to Hans Bethe ), and investigating high-temperature superconductors and many-body systems as examples of complex-adaptive systems (development of " emergent " behavior).

Fonts (selection)

The many-body problem . Benjamin, New York 1961 (with reprints)
Elementary Excitations in Solids . Benjamin, 1963
with Philippe Noziéres: Theory of Quantum Liquids . Volume 1 Normal Fermi Liquids . Benjamin 1966, Volume 2 Superfluid Bose Liquids . Benjamin 1966, Addison-Wesley 1990

literature

Piers Coleman and Laura Greene : David Pines (1924-2018). In: Nature . Volume 560, 2018, p. 432, doi: 10.1038 / d41586-018-05987-0

Web links

Resume. (PDF; 84 kB) sabanciuniv.edu, archived from the original on December 24, 2010 (English).; Retrieved January 1, 1970
David Pines. Biography. In: Physics History Network. AIP(English).; accessed on February 6, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ In memoriam: David Pines. Santa Fe Institute, May 4, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .
^ Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
^ Vadim Kayser: David Pines transitions to new position: Chief Evangelist at ICAM. In: ICAM News. October 12, 2012, archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on February 6, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ APS Fellow Archive. APS, accessed February 6, 2018 .
↑ 2016 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Recipient: David Pines. APS, accessed on February 6, 2018 : "For his contributions to our understanding of emergent behavior in quantum matter-plasmons, nuclear, celestial and unconventional superfluidity, heavy electron emergence-and for his effectiveness in communicating these discoveries and a new" emergent " paradigm to the broader scientific community. "

personal data
SURNAME	Pines, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kansas City , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 2018
Place of death	Urbana , Illinois

[1] In memoriam: David Pines. Santa Fe Institute, May 4, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .

[2] Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .

[3] Vadim Kayser: David Pines transitions to new position: Chief Evangelist at ICAM. In: ICAM News. October 12, 2012, archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on February 6, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] APS Fellow Archive. APS, accessed February 6, 2018 .

[5] 2016 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Recipient: David Pines. APS, accessed on February 6, 2018 : "For his contributions to our understanding of emergent behavior in quantum matter-plasmons, nuclear, celestial and unconventional superfluidity, heavy electron emergence-and for his effectiveness in communicating these discoveries and a new" emergent " paradigm to the broader scientific community. "