Fred Cummings
Frederick W. "Fred" Cummings (born November 21, 1931 in New Orleans ) is a theoretical physicist and emeritus at the University of California, Riverside . His research areas were quantum electrodynamics , many-body theory and nonlinear dynamics .
Cummings graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and received his doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 1960 with Edwin Thompson Jaynes . He was then until 1963 as a research physicist at the Philco Corporation in California and from 1963 Assistant Professor and later Professor at the University of California, Riverside. In 1993 he retired.
One of his most important works is the " Jaynes-Cummings model " with Jaynes (1963). He dealt with the coherence of radiation and cooperative phenomena. In recent years he has turned his interest to problems of developmental biology / morphogenesis and evolutionary theory .
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1975/76 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex .
Web links
- Frederick W. Cummings, Professor Emeritus. Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ FW Cummings: A model of morphogenesis. In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 339, 2004, pp. 531-547, doi: 10.1016 / j.physa.2004.04.047 . arxiv : physics / 0308030
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| SURNAME | Cummings, Fred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cummings, Frederick W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |