Richard L. Liboff

Richard Lawrence Liboff (born December 30, 1931 in New York City , † March 9, 2014 ibid) was an American physicist and author of several physics textbooks.

Life

Liboff received his PhD from New York University (NYU) in 1961 with a thesis on theoretical plasma physics : Propagation of Long Wavelength Disturbances in a Plasma . The work was supervised by Harold Grad and Bruno Zumino . He then taught physics at NYU and was a research assistant at NYU's Courant Institute . In 1964 he went to Cornell University , where he first worked at the School of Electrical Engineering and later also at the School of Applied Physics . 1970 he became a full professor. He published numerous papers on the equilibrium and transport properties of fluids and plasmas, on quantum theory (especially on quantum chaos ) as well as on astrophysical problems and the influence of electromagnetic fields on biological systems. He became known for his physics textbooks, which have appeared in several editions.

In 1972 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Books (selection)

• Richard L. Liboff: Kinetic Theory: Classical, Quantum, and Relativistic Descriptions . Third ed.Springer, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-387-95551-3 , pp. xx, 572 .
• Richard L. Liboff: Introductory Quantum Mechanics . Fourth ed. Addison-Wesley, San Francisco 2003, ISBN 978-0-8053-8714-8 , pp. xvii, 880 .
• Richard L. Liboff: Primer for Point and Space Groups . Springer, New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-387-40248-2 , pp. xiv, 220 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard L. Liboff in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

Web links

• H. Roger Segelken: Physicist Richard L. Liboff dies at 82nd Cornell Chronicle. Cornell University, May 22, 2014 (English).