John Reppy
John David Reppy (born February 16, 1931 in Lakewood (New Jersey) ) is an American physicist, known for research on quantum liquids (superfluid helium) and superconductors .
Life
Reppy graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in 1954 and a master's degree in 1956, and received a PhD in physics from Yale University in 1961 . 1962 to 1966 he was Assistant Professor at Yale and 1966 Associate Professor and later John Wetherill Professor at Cornell University . In 2005 he retired.
He was visiting scholar at Bell Laboratories , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Manchester and the University of Sussex .
He deals with super fluids (in He4 and He3, as well as suprasolidity in solid He 4), recently especially boundary conditions and phase transitions in reduced dimensionality. He worked with Nobel Prize winners David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson at Cornell University. Reppy claimed early observations of Bose-Einstein condensates (1983) in experiments with helium 4 in small pores (in the nanometer range) of a sponge-like glass (Vycor).
Reppy is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Physical Society , the Institute of Physics , the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1981 he received the Fritz London Memorial Award . From 1972 to 1973 and 1979 to 1980 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .
In 2000 he received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Award for participating in microgravity experiments . In 2000 he became a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 1978 he was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow.
He has been a well-known rock climber since his youth, with first ascents of routes in his home territory, the Ragged Mountains in Connecticut (which he wrote a climbing guide for), Mount Katahdin in Maine, the Shawangunks, in the Tetons in the Rocky Mountains and on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire. He also climbed a lot in England and the Alps and has long been a proponent of clean climbing methods.
He has been married to Judith Voris since 1959 and has three children.
He is not to be confused with the computer science professor John H. Reppy in Chicago.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reppy, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reppy, John David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lakewood (New Jersey) |