Jerome K. Percus

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Jerome Kenneth Percus (born June 21, 1926 in New York City ) is an American physicist and mathematician who made important contributions to statistical physics , chemical physics and applied mathematics .

Life

Jerome K. Percus first studied electrical engineering and then mathematics and physics. Since the early 1950s he worked at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken (New Jersey) . In 1954 he graduated from the Columbia University the Ph.D. with a thesis on quantum mechanics : Some remarks on the quantization of linear systems . From 1958 until his retirement he taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and at times at the Physics Department at New York University .

In 1958 he published with George J. Yevick a groundbreaking work in the classical statistical mechanics of liquids. They formulated a self-consistent integral equation (Percus-Yevick or PY equation) to determine the radial distribution function by means of a virial expansion , which enables the calculation of thermodynamic state variables . For hard sphere models it could be shown that the PY equation has exact analytical solutions. The article by Percus and Yevick is one of the most cited publications in statistical physics. He was a pioneer in molecular dynamics in the 1960s, collaborating with Loup Verlet and Joel Lebowitz in 1967 .

Percus published numerous papers on classical statistical mechanics, on quantum statistics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems, on combinatorics and on theoretical biophysics . He is the author of several non-fiction books. He wrote monographs on the application of mathematical methods in immunology , developmental biology and genome analysis .

In 1975 he received the Boris Pregel Award in Chemical Physics from the New York Academy of Sciences . In 1984 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1993 he received the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids from the American Chemical Society for his contributions to theoretical physical chemistry .

Fonts

  • Combinatorial Methods, Applied Mathematical Sciences 4, Springer 1971
  • Mathematics of genome analysis, Cambridge UP 2002
  • with Stephen Childress: Mathematical models in developmental biology, Courant Lectures in Mathematics 26, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerome K. Percus, George J. Yevick: Analysis of Classical Statistical Mechanics by Means of Collective Coordinates . In: Physical Review . tape 110 , no. 1 , 1958, p. 1–13 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.110.1 .
  2. ↑ Jerome K. Percus: This Week's Citation Classic . In: Current Contents . No. 2 , 1983, p. 18 (Jerome K. Percus on the creation of the publication with George J. Yevick).
  3. ↑ Lebowitz, Percus, Verlet: Ensemble Dependence of Fluctuations with Application to Machine Computations , Phys. Rev., Vol. 153, 1967, p. 250, abstract
  4. ↑ Percus and Susskind win 1975 Pregel Awards . In: Physics Today . tape 29 , no. 3 , 1976, p. 75 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.3023384 .
  5. ^ Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids. American Chemical Society, accessed June 29, 2017 (English, with list of award winners).

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personal data
SURNAME Percus, Jerome K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Percus, Jerome Kenneth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City