Paul C. Martin (physicist)

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Paul Cecil Martin (born January 31, 1931 in Brooklyn , † June 19, 2016 in Belmont, Boston ) was an American theoretical physicist who studied statistical mechanics and many-body theory, as well as chaos theory.

Martin studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1951, a master's degree in 1952 and a doctorate under Julian Schwinger in 1954. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Birmingham in 1955 and at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen in 1956 . In 1957 he became Assistant Professor and 1964 Professor of Physics at Harvard, where he was Dean from 1977 to 1992 and since 1982 John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Research Professor of Pure and Applied Physics . Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Paris, at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Nuclear Research Center in Saclay .

In many-particle physics he wrote a fundamental paper with Julian Schwinger in 1959.

He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1966 and 1972 and a Sloan Research Fellow from 1959 to 1963 . Since 1968 he was co-editor of the Annals of Physics . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1963), the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the New York Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

  • with Julian Schwinger: Theory of many-particle systems. In: Physical Review. Volume 115, 1959, p. 1342.
  • with Leo Kadanoff : Hydrodynamic equations and correlation functions. In: Annals of Physics. Volume 24, 1963, p. 419.
  • with Cyrano de Dominicis : Stationary entropy principle and renormalization in quantum systems. I, II. In: Journal of Mathematical Physics. Volume 5, 1964, p. 14.
  • with PC Hohenberg : Microscopic theory of helium. In: Annals of Physics. Volume 34, 1965, p. 291.
  • with ED Siggia, HA Rose: Statistical dynamics of classical systems. In: Phys. Rev. A. Volume 8, 1973, p. 423.
  • with B. Shraiman, CE Wayne: Scaling theory for noisy period-doubling transitions to chaos. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 46, 1981, p. 935.

Web links

  • Paul C. Martin on the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/06/paul-c-martin-dies-at-85/
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Paul C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Paul Cecil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2016
Place of death Belmont, Boston