Norman Christ

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Norman Christ (born December 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh ) is an American physicist.

Christ studied at Columbia University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1965 and his doctorate in 1966. From 1966 he was at Princeton University , where he rose to associate professor. In 1967 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1974 he was a professor at Columbia University ( Ephraim Gildor Professor of Physics ). From 1994 to 1999 he was chairman of the physics faculty. At the same time he is at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

He deals with quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and lattice calculations for QCD. He is one of the founders of the QCD Teraflop supercomputer project and the QCDSP project for QCD on supercomputers at Columbia University and the BNL (started in 1993, with two 400 and 600 Gflop machines, respectively, in 1998, they reached 1 teraflop in 1998). For the latter he received the Gordon Bell Prize in 1998 with Robert Mawhinney, Alan Gara and Pavlos Vranas. He is also involved in the follow-up project QCDDOC (QCD on a chip), in which three parallel computers (two computers in Brookhaven, one at the University of Edinburgh) with 10 teraflop peak power each and permanent power at around half went into operation.

In 1981 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group .

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SURNAME Christ, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh