George Stell

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George Stell (born January 2, 1933 in Sea Cliff , New York - † December 22, 2014 ) was an American physicist who made important contributions to the field of statistical mechanics of liquids.

Life

George Stell studied at Antioch College in Yellow Springs , Ohio , where he received his B.Sc. acquired. After a stay at the University of Illinois , he went to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University . There he received his doctorate in 1961 with a thesis on fluid physics Solutions of the Hierarchy Equations of Statistical Mechanics for Mixtures . The theory of fluid and disordered physical systems continued to be his field of work, and in 1964 he published a fundamental article on cluster development for classical many-body systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. After receiving his doctorate, he was a postdoc at the Belfer Graduate School of Science at Yeshiva University and worked with Joel Lebowitz . In 1965 he became an associate professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn . In 1968 he moved to Stony Brook University , where he worked for the next 46 years, from 1979 to the Department of Chemistry and Engineering and since 2001 as Distinguished Professor . Guest stays in Europe led him to the University of Trondheim (NTNU) in Norway and the University of Paris-South . His special interest was the calculation of the thermodynamic properties of various fluid systems (including one-component dipolar fluids, ionic fluids, systems with Yukawa potential , molecular, associated and polymerizing fluids) under different external conditions by using integral equation methods in statistical physics. With his colleagues, he made significant methodological advances in solving the Ornstein - Zernike equation.

In 1976 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , and in 1984 received a Guggenheim Fellowship . In 1992 he was elected a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . In 1993 he received the Lars Onsager Professorship at NTNU in Trondheim and in 1996 the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award from the American Chemical Society .

literature

  • Alina Ciach, Carol Hall, Gerhard Kahl, Enrique Lomba: George Stell (1933-2014), Obituary . In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter . tape 28 , 2016, p. 1–3 , doi : 10.1088 / 0953-8984 / 28/41/410401 .
  • Alina Ciach, Carol K. Hall, Gerhard Kahl, Enrique Lomba: Fifty years of liquid state physics (Preface) . In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter . tape 28 , 2016, p. 1–6 , doi : 10.1088 / 0953-8984 / 28/41/410301 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Stell: Cluster expansions for classical systems in equilibrium . In: Harry L. Frisch, Joel L. Lebowitz (Eds.): The Equilibrium Theory of Classical Fluids . Benjamin, New York 1964.

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personal data
SURNAME Stand, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Sea Cliff , New York
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2014