László Tisza

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László Tisza

László Tisza (born July 7, 1907 in Budapest , † April 15, 2009 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American physicist of Hungarian origin.

He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Life

Tisza studied mathematics in Budapest. He turned to physics when he became acquainted with quantum mechanics from 1928 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen under Max Born . Then he went to Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig , where he published a paper on molecular spectra with another Hungarian doctoral student, Edward Teller . He also wrote his doctoral thesis there, which he sent to Budapest. He then joined Lev Landau's group in Kharkiv , whose applications of thermodynamics in modern physics strongly influenced him. This also became the area in which Tisza became known. In 1937 he studied with Fritz London in Paris whose works on Supra liquids (liquid helium ) know and developed the two-liquid theory of liquid helium (superfluid and normal phase).

In 1941 he emigrated to the United States and joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he became a professor. In addition to theoretical physics (especially thermodynamics ), he later also dealt with the history and philosophy of science , especially with regard to quantum mechanics. In 1950 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1973 Tisza retired .

Fonts

  • The Thermodynamics of Phase Equilibrium , Annals of Physics, Vol. 13, 1961, pp. 1-92
  • with PM Quay Statistical Thermodynamics of Equilibrium , Annals of Physics, Vol. 25, 1963, pp. 49-90
  • Generalized Thermodynamics , MIT Press, Cambridge / Massachusetts 1966
  • Integration of Classical and Quantum Physics , Physical Review A, Vol. 40, 1989, pp. 6781-6790

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personal data
SURNAME Tisza, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2009
Place of death Cambridge