Harry Swinney
Harry Leonard Swinney (born April 10, 1939 in Opelousas , Louisiana ) is an American physicist who is known for his contributions in the field of dynamical systems .
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Swinney graduated from Rhodes College with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and received a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1968. In 1971 he became an assistant professor at New York University , in 1973 an associate professor and in 1978 a professor at the City University of New York . In 1978 he went to the University of Texas at Austin , where he became director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics . He still has that position. From 1984 he was there Trull Centennial Professor of Physics and from 1990 Sid Richardson Foundation Regents Professor of Physics.
In 1977 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the National Academy of Sciences (1992), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999). In 1995 he received the American Physical Society's Hydrodynamics Prize , the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal in 2012 and the Boltzmann Medal in 2013 .
Work
Swinney was one of the pioneers of chaos theory . His experiments with Jerry Gollub on the formation of turbulence in liquids between rotating cylinders ( Taylor-Couette flow ) are known. His general research areas include instabilities , chaos , pattern formation and turbulence in systems that deviate from dynamic equilibrium through temperature, speed, concentration, etc.
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Gleick : Chaos. Making a New Science . Penguin, New York
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| SURNAME | Swinney, Harry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swinney, Harry Leonard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opelousas , USA |