Eugene Stanley

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Harry Eugene Stanley (born March 28, 1941 in Norman , Oklahoma ) is an American physicist .

life and work

Harry Eugene ("Gene") Stanley was born to Harry Eugene and Ruth Stanley. In 1962 he received his bachelor's degree in physics from Wesleyan University . From 1962 to 1963 he was on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Cologne and dealt with experimental biophysics . His supervisor there was Max Delbrück , whom he describes as the most important mentor of his career. Then he was a doctoral student at Harvard University , where he to Thomas A. Kaplan and 1967 John H. van Vleck doctorate was. He then worked in the solid state physics group at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1968 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a post-doctoral student . The following year he went back to MIT, where he was assistant professor (1969–71), associate professor (1971–73) and associate professor Hermann von Helmholtz (1973–76). In 1975 he was visiting professor in Osaka , Japan .

Since 1976 he has been Professor of Physics at Boston University , since 1978 Professor of Physiology and Director of the Center for Polymers there and, since 2007, Professor of Medical Technology and Chemistry.

Visiting professorships took him to the École normal supérieure in 1979, to Peking University in 1981 and to Seoul National University in 1982 .

Stanley works in various areas of physics and related disciplines. He is particularly interested in statistical mechanics , the theoretical physics of condensed matter , the structure and dynamics of polymers and glasses , phase transitions , high temperature superconductors , surface physics , granular matter , critical phenomena , fractals and chaos theory as well as the structure of liquid water. In 1968 he introduced the n-vector model . But he has also made significant contributions to the application of statistical mechanics, for example to economic physics, Alzheimer's disease , heart rate measurements, networks and non-coding DNA regions.

Gene Stanley was married to Idahlia Dessauer from June 2, 1967 until her death in March 2003; their three children are Jannah, Michael and Rachel.

Publications

In addition to 700 articles in scientific journals, Stanley published the following books:

  • Critical pheonomena in Heisenberg models of magnetism . Dissertation, 1967
  • Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-19-505316-8
  • with Dietrich Stauffer , Annick Lesne: From Newton to Mandelbrot. A Primer in Theoretical Physics . Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 1990, ISBN 3-540-52661-7
  • with K. Brecher, SV Buldyrev, P. Garik, SM Milosevic, Edwin F. Taylor and Paul A. Trumfio: Fractals in Science . Springer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-540-94361-7
  • with Albert-László Barabási : Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-48308-5
  • with Dietrich Stauffer and Annick Lesne: Cours de physique . Springer, Paris [et al.] 1999, ISBN 2-287-59674-7
  • with Rosario N. Mantegna: Introduction to Econophysics. Correlations and Complexity in Finance . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-62008-2
  • more than 15 books as editor

Video lecture

  • Applications of Statistical Physics to Understanding Complex Systems , complete video of a lecture (approx. 1 hour) at an international conference on econophysics in September 2008, just after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers ,

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  1. ↑ Seeking connections: H. Eugene Stanley . In: Nature . Volume 422, p. 819, April 24, 2003.
  2. ↑ A. Aharony, RJ Birgeneau, A. Coniglio, MA Kastner and HE Stanley: Magnetic Phase Diagram and Magnetic Pairing in Doped La 2 CuO 4 . In: Physical Review Letters . Volume 60, 1988, pp. 1330-1333.
  3. ↑ J. Nittmann, G. Daccord and HE Stanley: Fractal Growth of Viscous Fingers. A Quantitative Characterization of a Fluid Instability Phenomenon. In: Nature . Volume 314, 1985. pp. 141-144.
  4. ^ HE Stanley, J. Teixeira, A. Geiger and RL Blumberg: Interpretation of the Unusual Behavior of H 2 O and D 2 O at Low Temperature. Are Concepts of Percolation Relevant to the Puzzle of Liquid Water? . In: Physica A . Volume 106, 1981, pp. 260-277.
  5. ^ RN Mantegna and HE Stanley: Scaling Behavior in the Dynamics of an Economic Index . In: Nature . Volume 376, 1995, pp. 46-49
  6. ^ CK Peng, S. Havlin, HE Stanley and AL Goldberger: Quantification of Scaling Exponents and Crossover Phenomena in Nonstationary Heartbeat Time Series . In: chaos . Volume 5, 1995, pp. 82-87 (= L. Glass (Ed.): Proc. NATO Dynamical Disease Conference ).
  7. ^ LAN Amaral, A. Scala, M. Barthelemy and HE Stanley: Classes of Behavior of Small-World Networks . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 97, 2000, pp. 11149-11152.
  8. ↑ CK Peng, S. Buldyrev, A. Goldberger, p Havlin, F. Sciortino, M. Simons and HE Stanley: Long-Range Correlations in nucleotide sequences . In: Nature . Volume 356, 1992, pp. 168-171.
  9. ^ Applications of Statistical Physics to Understanding Complex Systems videolectures.net.

literature

  • Who's Who in America . 2007, p. 4320, ISBN 0-8379-7006-7
  • Honorary doctorate for the American Eugene Stanley . In: Unizet . No. 332, July 2001, ISSN  1439-1198
  • Francesco Mallamace, Sharon C. Glotzer, Gianpiero Malescio, Peter H. Poole and Giuseppe Salvetti: Horizons In Complex Systems. In Honor Of Professor H. Eugene Stanley On The Occasion Of His 60th Birthday . North Holland, Amsterdam [u. a.] 2002 (= Physica A, Statistical and theoretical physics, Volume 314, Issues 1–4, ISSN  0378-4371 )

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personal data
SURNAME Stanley, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanley, Harry Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Norman , Oklahoma