Eduard Vladimirovich Schurjak

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Eduard Wladimirowitsch Schurjak ( English Edward V. Shuryak , Russian Эдуард Владимирович Шуряк ; * 1948 in Ukraine ) is a Soviet-American theoretical physicist.

Shuryak grew up in Odessa . After solving math problems in a magazine with some friends, he was invited to Novosibirsk in 1964 . He attended a special school for physics and mathematics in Akademgorodok and then studied at the Novosibirsk State University . One of his teachers was Landau's student Juri Borissowitsch Rumer , another Vladimir Zelevinsky (now a professor at Michigan State University ). In 1974 he received his doctorate there at the Institute for Nuclear Physics (now the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics ) with Spartak Timofejewitsch Beljajew and habilitated in 1982.

From 1973 Shurjak was a scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Physics, where he made it to the position of chief scientist. From 1975 to 1989 he was also a lecturer at the University of Novosibirsk. In 1989 (after he was at CERN ) he left the Soviet Union. He went (on the mediation of Gerry Brown ) first to the Brookhaven National Laboratory and shortly afterwards to the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY), where he is today Professor (since 2003 Distinguished Professor ) and Director of the Institute for Nuclear Physics.

Schurjak dealt early with the quark-gluon plasma , a name that he introduced in 1978. Later he mainly dealt with the instanton liquid description of the vacuum in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which he proposed in 1982. But he also continues to work intensively on the quark-gluon plasma (and its hydrodynamic description as an almost ideal liquid including Mach cone phenomena), which has been studied in particular at the Brookhaven National Laboratory with the RHIC from around 2000. He also dealt with random matrices and color superconductivity .

In 1996 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2005 he received the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 2004 he received the Dirac Medal (UNSW) , for 2018 he was awarded the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics .

Fonts

  • The QCD Vacuum, hadrons and superdense matter, World Scientific 2004 (Lecturenotes in Physics)
  • with Thomas Schäfer: Instantons in QCD, Reviews of .Modern Physics., Vol. 70, 1998, pp. 323-425
  • Theory and Phenomenology of the QCD vacuum, Physics Reports, Vol. 115, 1984, pp. 151-314
  • The structure of the QCD vacuum and hadrons, Physics Reports, Vol. 264, 1996, p. 357.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sov. Phys. JETP Vol. 47, 1978, p. 212, Physics Letters B, Vol. 78, 1978, p. 150, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. Vol. 28 1978, p. 408.
personal data
SURNAME Schurjak, Eduard Wladimirowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shuryak, Edward V. (English); Šurâk, Èduard Vladimirovič; Šurjak, Ėdvard V (transliterated); Шуряк, Эдуард Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic