H. Pierre Noyes

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Henry Pierre Noyes (born December 10, 1923 in Paris , † September 30, 2016 in Stanford ) was an American theoretical physicist.

Noyes was the son of William Albert Noyes junior . He studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1943 and the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his doctorate in physics in 1950 and then was at the Radiation Laboratory. In 1943/44 he was at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Birmingham in 1950/51 and from 1951 Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester . In 1955 he became group leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the direction of Edward Teller . From 1962 he was at SLAC , where he initially headed the Theoretical Physics department as an Associate Professor (until he was replaced by Sidney Drell ), and where he was Professor of Theoretical Physics from 1967 to 2002.

Among other things, he dealt with nucleon-nucleon scattering (partly with Michael J. Moravcsik ) and the nuclear physics problem of few particles.

From 1959 to 1962 he was a consultant to General Dynamics (General Atomics Division), where he worked with Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor on Project Orion (nuclear-powered spacecraft), and from Lockheed Aircraft in 1962/63. 1957/58 he was Leverhulme Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and 1961 visiting professor at Cornell University .

He later represented an attempt to derive fundamental natural constants from discrete bit-string models, called bit-string physics. (Other representatives were Ted Bastin and Clive W. Kilmister and John Amson and a forerunner Arthur Eddington and the British mystic and mycologist Frederick Parker-Rhodes (1914-1987)). They grouped themselves in the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association in Cambridge, of which Noyes was temporarily president.

In 1979 he received the Humboldt Research Award . He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

literature

  • John C. Amson, Louis Kauffman (Eds.): Scientific Essays in Honor of H Pierre Noyes on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, World Scientific 2014

Fonts

  • H. Pierre Noyes, JC van den Berg (eds.): Bit-String Physics: A Finite and Discrete Approach to Natural Philosophy, World Scientific 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Taylor Kubota: H. Pierre Noyes, theoretical physicist and antiwar activist, dies at 92nd Stanford University, February 14, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2017 .
  3. ^ Noyes, A short introduction to big string physics, SLAC Pub, 7205, 1997, Arxiv
  4. ^ Bastin, Kilmister, Combinatorial Physics, World Scientific 1995
personal data
SURNAME Noyes, H. Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noyes, Henry Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2016
Place of death Stanford