John Dirk Walecka
John Dirk Walecka , often quoted as J. Dirk Walecka (born March 11, 1932 in Milwaukee ) is an American theoretical nuclear physicist.
Life
Walecka studied at Harvard University (Bachelor in 1954) and received his doctorate in 1958 under Victor Weisskopf at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1958/59 he was a Fellow of the National Science Foundation at CERN and then at Stanford University , where he became Assistant Professor in 1960 and Professor in 1966. From 1977 to 1982 he was head of the physics faculty and from 1987 he was professor emeritus there. From 1986 to 1992 he was the scientific director of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) in Newport News , Virginia . From 1992 he was a professor at the College of William and Mary (Distinguished CEBAF Professor of Physics), where he headed the Nuclear Physics Institute and the Physics Faculty. Also from 1992 he was at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility .
He is the author of a standard work on quantum mechanical many-body theory with Alexander Fetter and a book on many-body methods in theoretical nuclear physics. He was particularly concerned with electron scattering on nuclei.
In 1991 he was Distinguished Ship Lecturer at Stanford. In 1996 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 2009 he received the Feenberg Medal .
In 2000 he edited Felix Bloch's lectures on statistical mechanics (World Scientific).
Fonts
- Theoretical nuclear and subnuclear physics, Oxford University Press 1996
- with Alexander L. Fetter: Quantum theory of many particle systems, McGraw Hill 1971, Dover 2006
- with Fetter: Theoretical mechanics of particles and continua, McGraw Hill 1980, Dover 2003
- with Fetter: Nonlinear Mechanics, Dover 2006
- Introduction to General Relativity, World Scientific 2007
- Introduction to Modern Physics - Theoretical Foundations, World Scientific 2008
- Electron scattering for nuclei and nucleon structure, Cambridge University Press 2001
- with TW Donnelly Electron scattering and nuclear structure , Annual Review of Nuclear Science, Vol. 25, 1975, pp 329-405
- Advanced Modern Physics, World Scientific Publishing, 2010
- Topics in Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, World Scientific Publishing, 2013
literature
- Warren Buck, Khin Maung, Brian Serot (Eds.) Dirkfest 92: A symposium in honor of J. Dirk Walecka (CEBAF April 1992), World Scientific 1992
Web links
- Biography at the APS
- Bonn Prize for Walecka
- Feenberg Medal for Walecka ( Memento from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ John Dirk Walecka in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walecka, John Dirk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walecka, J. Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theoretical nuclear physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |