Irwin Oppenheim

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Irwin Oppenheim (born June 30, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts ; † June 3, 2014 there ) was an American physicist and chemist who worked in the field of statistical physics and thermodynamics .

Life

Irwin Oppenheim studied physics and chemistry at Harvard University and then worked at the California Institute of Technology and Yale University with John G. Kirkwood . He obtained the academic degree PhD in 1956 with a thesis on the application of Wigner functions for the calculation of quantum corrections to classical distribution functions in statistical mechanics. In 1961 he became an associate professor and in 1965 a full professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT . He worked at MIT until his retirement in 1996. His main area of ​​work was the calculation of the equilibrium and transport properties of gases and of systems in the condensed phase.

In 1958 Oppenheim became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Since 1970 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1998 he received the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids from the American Chemical Society .

From 1993 to 2002 he was editor of the journal Physical Review E.

literature

  • Gene D. Sprouse, Eli Ben-Naim: Announcement: In Memory of Irwin Oppenheim . In: Physical Review E . tape 89 , June 17, 2014, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevE.89.060001 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter O. (PDF; 289 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids. American Chemical Society, accessed July 12, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Irwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2014
Place of death Boston, Massachusetts