Lawrence Schulman

Lawrence S. Schulman , often quoted as LS Schulman (born November 21, 1941 in Newark ), is an American theoretical physicist.

Life

Schulman studied at Yeshiva University (Bachelor 1963) and received his doctorate in 1967 from Princeton University with Arthur Wightman . In 1964 he was at Los Alamos National Laboratory and in 1965 (and 1968) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . Then he was from 1967 Assistant Professor at Indiana University , where he was a professor until 1978. In 1972 he became an associate professor at the Technion (where he had previously been a guest scientist in 1970/71) and in 1977 he was professor and stayed there until 1988 (as a professor). From 1985 he was a professor at Clarkson University . From 1992 to 1996 he was visiting professor at Columbia University .

Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Paris, the University of Trondheim, the University of Utrecht and the French nuclear research center in Saclay.

Schulman dealt with statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium phenomena, in particular with the physics of the arrow of time . In the 1960s he also wrote some early essays on tachyons and the time paradoxes that would result from their existence. A standard work on path integrals comes from him . He also deals with the quantum mechanical measurement process.

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Israeli Physical Society.

Fonts

• Techniques and Applications of Path Integration . Wiley 1981, 1996, Dover 2006
• Time's arrow and quantum measurement . Cambridge University Press, 1997

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