Kenneth Case
Kenneth M. Case (born September 23, 1923 in New York City , † February 1, 2006 ) was an American physicist.
Case was with the Manhattan Project in 1944/45 and studied at Harvard University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1945, his master's degree in 1946 and his doctorate in 1948. From 1948 to 1950 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and at the same time from 1949/1950 at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley .
In 1950 he was at the University of Rochester and from 1951 at the University of Michigan , first as an assistant professor of chemistry and later as a professor of physics. In 1969 he became a professor at Rockefeller University , where he had been Professor Emeritus since 1988.
At the same time he was from 1988 Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Nonlinear Studies at the University of California, San Diego . In 1961 he was visiting professor at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in 1963/64 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Case dealt with various areas of physics from neutron diffusion , elementary particle physics and plasma physics to non-linear phenomena, for example in the spectrum of ocean waves and turbulence.
He was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group . In 1959 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1975 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- with George Placzek and Frederic de Hoffmann : Introduction to the theory of neutron diffusion . Volume 1. Los Alamos, NM, 1953.
- with Paul Zweifel Linear Transport Theory , Addison-Wesley 1967
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In 1953 he wrote a textbook on neutron diffusion from the work in Los Alamos with George Placzek and Frederic de Hoffmann
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Case, Kenneth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Case, Kenneth M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 2006 |