Gerald Brown

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Gerald Edward "Gerry" Brown (born July 22, 1926 in Brookings , South Dakota , † May 31, 2013 in New York City ) was an American theoretical physicist who mainly dealt with nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics . Since 1968 he has been a professor at the Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook .

life and work

Brown received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and his master's degree from Yale University in 1948 , where he received his Ph.D. in 1950 . In 1957 he made his D.Sc. at the University of Birmingham in England (with Rudolf Peierls ), where he was lecturer from 1955 and professor for theoretical physics from 1959/60. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . From 1960 to 1985 he was professor at Nordita in Copenhagen and at the same time professor at Princeton from 1964 to 1968 and from 1968 professor at the State University of New York in Stony Brook , where he was Distinguished Professor of Physics since 1988.

Brown initially worked in theoretical atomic physics (self-ionization of the vacuum with Geoff Ravenhall 1951, Lambshift in heavy atoms, electron-electron interaction, precise calculation of Rayleigh scattering ). In nuclear physics, where he was one of the leading theorists of many-particle theory in nuclear physics for decades , he worked e.g. B. with Mark Bolsteri about the giant dipole resonance , with Thomas T. S. Kuo about effective interaction of nucleons in atomic nuclei and about chirally invariant theories of the atomic nucleus (with Mannque Rho , Dan-Olof Riska ), i.e. about field theories with pions and other mesons . With Mannque Rho, he introduced the little bag model of hadrons in 1979 and the Brown-Rho scaling in 1991. From the 1970s onwards, in collaboration with Hans Bethe , he applied the equations of state obtained from nuclear physics in the theory of compact stars (star collapse and supernovae , double stars with compact stars as partners, development of black holes , gamma ray bursts ). From the late 1970s he also worked on bag models of nucleons (chiral bag and others).

Ulf-G is one of his doctoral students . Meissner .

Awards

Brown received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Helsinki (1982), Birmingham (1990) and Copenhagen (1998).

Fonts (selection)

  • Unified theory of nuclear models . North Holland, Interscience, 1964, new edition as Unified theory of nuclear models and forces . North Holland, 1967, 1971
  • with Andrew D. Jackson : The Nucleon Nucleon Interaction . North Holland, 1976
  • Many body problems . North Holland, 1972
  • with Ravenhall: On the interaction of two electrons . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A , 208, 1951, p. 552
  • with Bolsteri: Dipole state in nuclei . In: Physical Review Letters , Volume 3, 1959, p. 472
  • The discovery of the giant multipole resonances in atomic nuclei . In: Physikalische Blätter , 1997, p. 710 (lecture on the occasion of the award of the Max Planck Medal of the DPG)
  • with Kuo: Structure of finite nuclei and the free Nucleon-Nucleon interaction: an application to O18 and F18 . In: Nuclear Physics A , Volume 85, 1966, pp. 40-86
  • with Rho: The chiral bag . In: Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics , Volume 18, 1988, p. 1
  • with Rho: Towards a basis in QCD for nuclear physics . In: Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics , Volume 16, 1986, 245
  • with Rho: Scaling effective Lagrangian in dense medium . In: Physical Review Letters , Volume 66, 1991, 2720
  • The structure of the nucleon . In: Physics Today , January 1983
  • with Zahed The Skyrme Model . In: Physics Reports , Volume 142, 1986, pp. 1-102
  • with Wolfram Weise , Gordon Baym , Josef Speth : Relativistic effects in nuclear physics . In: Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics, Volume 17, 1987, 37
  • with Bethe, Applegate, James Lattimer : Evolution of state in the gravitational collapse of stars . In: Nuclear Physics A , 324, 1979, p. 487
  • Brown, Bethe: Evolution of binary compact objects that merge . In: Astrophysical Journal , Volume 506, 1998, p. 780, arxiv : astro-ph / 9802084
  • with Bethe: How a Supernova explodes . In: Scientific American , May 1985
  • The Nucleon-nucleon Interaction and the Nuclear Many-body Problem: Selected Papers of Gerald E. Brown and T. T. S. Kuo . In: World Scientific , 2010
  • Fly with eagles . In: Annual Review Nucl. Partl. Sci. , Volume 51, 2001, pp. 1–22 (autobiographical)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV (PDF; 36 kB) on Gerald Brown's homepage (English) accessed on June 8, 2008
  2. ↑ Description of Brown's achievements as a Hans A. Bethe Prize winner of the American Physical Society (English)
  3. ↑ Dr. Gerald Edward Brown. amacad.org, accessed February 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Gerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Gerald Edward; Brown, Gerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookings, South Dakota
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2013
Place of death New York City