John Negele

John William Negele (born April 18, 1944 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American theoretical nuclear physicist.

Negele studied electrical engineering at Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and received her doctorate in 1969 under Hans Bethe at Cornell University in theoretical physics ( The Structure of Finite Nuclei in the Local Density Approximation ). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. From 1970 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , initially as Visiting Assistant Professor, from 1979 as Professor (from 1991 "WACoolidge Professor"). From 1989 to 1998 he was director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT and is director of the Nuclear Physics Institute at MIT (Laboratory of Nuclear Science, LNS).

Negele dealt with many-particle theory in nuclear physics (including local density approximation , time-dependent Hartree-Fock method TDHF, path integrals ), but also for example with spin systems. The first density functional theory of finite nuclei originates from him, based on realistic (experimentally based) nucleon-nucleon interactions. He and colleagues used it to calculate binding energies of nuclei, single-particle excitation energies, charge distributions and properties of nuclear matter in neutron stars. Since the 1980s he has dealt with grating - QCD . He was also involved in the design of special computer clusters for the invoices.

He was a Sloan Research Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow and received the Humboldt Research Award . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2014 he received the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics “ for lifetime contributions to nuclear many-body theory including identifying mechanisms for saturation and relating the Skyrme interaction to fundamental nuclear forces; and for initiating and leading efforts to understand the nucleon using lattice QCD ”(laudation, German:“ for his life's work in the field of the nuclear many-particle problem including the identification of mechanisms for the saturation of the nuclear force and the connection of the Skyrme interaction to fundamental nuclear forces and for initiating and directing efforts to understand the nucleon with the help of the grid QCD ")

He was the first chairman of the APS Computational Physics Committee .

Fonts

• Quantum many-particle systems . Westview Press, Addison-Wesley 1988, ISBN 0-429-96647-4 (with Henri Orland).
• Understanding Hadron Structure Using Lattice QCD . In: Nuclear Physics A . tape 699 , no. 1-2 , February 25, 2002, pp. 18-25 , doi : 10.1016 / S0375-9474 (01) 01465-8 , arxiv : hep-lat / 0107010 .
• Instantons, the QCD Vacuum, and Hadronic Physics . In: Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements . tape 73 , no. 1–3 , 1999, pp. 92-104 , doi : 10.1016 / S0920-5632 (99) 85010-5 , arxiv : hep-lat / 9810053 .
• Understanding Hadron Structure Using Lattice QCD . Enrico Fermi School, Varenna April 13, 1998, arxiv : hep-lat / 9804017 .
• Nuclear Theory White Paper 1995 . Ed .: Argonne National Laboratory. 1995, arxiv : nucl-th / 9502035 (with Vijay Pandharipande , George Bertsch , Berndt Mueller , James Friar).

Web links

• Homepage at MIT
• Literature by and about John Negele in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Negele in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ^ JW Negele: Structure of Finite Nuclei in the Local Density Approximation . In: Physical Review C . tape 1 , no. 4 , 1970, pp. 1260-1321 , here p. 1260 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevC.1.1260 . Validity of local density approximation . In: Georges Ripka, M. Porneuf (Ed.): Nuclear self consistent fields . Published for the International Atomic Energy Agency by North-Holland Pub. Co., Amsterdam 1975, ISBN 0-7204-0341-3 .
   
3. ↑ for example the Alice Linux cluster at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , headed by Klaus Schilling (professor in Wuppertal). Press release University of Wuppertal, Living Next Door to Alice 2000
4. ^ Feshbach Prize laudatory speech .