Herch Moysés Nussenzveig
Herch Moysés Nussenzveig , sometimes also quoted by HM Nussenzweig , (born January 16, 1933 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian theoretical physicist .
Life
Nussenzveig was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, made his intermediate diploma in 1954 and obtained his doctorate in São Paulo in 1957 . He studied with Guido Beck and his successor David Bohm and Mario Schenberg , with whom he received his doctorate. While defending his doctorate, he was also examined by Richard Feynman , who was then in Brazil to improve physics education. As a post-doc he was at the University of Birmingham with Rudolf Peierls , in Zurich with Res Jost and in the Netherlands with Léon Van Hove at the University of Utrecht and NG van Kampen at the University of Eindhoven . He was then an assistant professor in São Paulo from 1956 to 1960 and at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF) in Rio from 1962 to 1968. In 1964/65 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . During the military dictatorship in Brazil , he was in the USA from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, and from 1969 to 1975 as a professor and senior researcher at the University of Rochester (with Elliott Montroll, among others ). He was then professor in São Paulo from 1975 to 1983 and from 1983 to 1994 at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUCRJ). From 1981 to 1983 he was President of the Sociedade Brasileira de Física . From 1994 he was a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he retired in 2003.
Among other things, in the 1960s Nussenzveig dealt with the then current analytical S-matrix theory (with the theory of Regge poles and dispersion relations) of elementary particles and scattering and diffraction theory in optics, especially Mie scattering , whereby the techniques of the complex Angular momentum from elementary particle theory applied. This found applications in particular in the theory of the rainbow and other phenomena of atmospheric optics.
In 1986 he received the Max Born Prize from the Optical Society of America . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America, the South American Academy of Sciences and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. In 1993 a chair at Tel Aviv University was named after him. In 1999 he received the Jabuti Prize of the Brazilian Book Producers and in 1995 the Almirante Alvaro Alberto Prize. He has been awarded the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit for Science of Brazil. 1981 to 1983 he was President of the Brazilian Physical Society.
Fonts
- Diffraction effects in semiclassical scattering, Cambridge University Press 2006
- Introduction to quantum optics, Gordon and Breach 1973
- Causality and Dispersion relations, Academic Press 1972
- Curso de Fisica Basica, 4 volumes, Edgard Blücher, Sao Paulo 1996
Essays on the theory of the rainbow:
- The Theory of the Rainbow, Scientific American, Vol. 236, 1977, No. 4, p. 116
- High frequency scattering by an impenetrable sphere, Ann. of Phys., Vol. 34, 1965, pp. 23-95.
- High-frequency scattering by a transparent sphere, II. Theory of the rainbow and the glory, J. Math. Phys., Vol. 10, 1969, pp. 125-176
- Complex angular momentum theory of the rainbow and the glory, J. Opt. Soc. Am., Vol. 69, 1979, p. 1068
- with V. Khare: Theory of the Rainbow, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 33, 1974, p. 976
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nussenzveig, Herch Moysés |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nut branch, HM |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo |