Eugene Gross
Eugene P. Gross (born January 27, 1926 , † January 19, 1991 in Boston ) was an American theoretical physicist.
Gross received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1948 under David Bohm . As a post-doctoral student he was a Carnegie Fellow at Harvard University and in 1950/51 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was then at the Laboratory for Insulation Research and from 1954 Assistant Professor at Syracuse University . In 1956 he became an associate professor and in 1961 a professor at Brandeis University . From 1977 to 1979 he headed the physics faculty. From 1976 he was Edward and Gertrude Swartz Professor of Theoretical Physics.
1963/64 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rome and 1969/70 visiting professor at MIT:
He dealt with statistical mechanics, plasma and solid state physics. In 1961 he introduced the Gross-Pitaevskii equation independently of Lev Petrovich Pitajewski as part of the theory of bosonic quantum liquids (such as liquid helium).
The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook operator is named after him, Prabhu L. Bhatnagar and Max Krook . It is an operator describing collisions in the Boltzmann equation (and numerical approximations to this, the Lattice-Boltzmann method ) of gases.
He was married to the biochemist Sonja Keller. His son Mark was a professor of architecture and civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his brother Theodore Gross was president of Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bhatnagar, Gross, Krook, A Model for Collision Processes in Gases. I. Small Amplitude Processes in Charged and Neutral One-Component Systems, Phys. Rev., Vol. 94, 1954, pp. 511-525
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gross, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gross, Eugene P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1926 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1991 |
| Place of death | Boston |