Eric Heller
Eric Johnson Heller (born January 10, 1946 in Washington, DC ) is an American professor of chemistry and physics at Harvard University . Heller is known for his work in time-dependent quantum mechanics .
He did his doctorate in 1973 with William P. Reinhardt at Harvard on the subject of Discrete methods in quantum scattering theory .
In physics he is known for his work in the field of quantum chaos .
Heller is an elected member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society and other scientific institutions. In 1987 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . Prior to joining Harvard in 1998, he held faculty positions at the University of Washington , Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of California . At Harvard, he was director at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics (ITAMP) from 1993 to 1998.
Heller's father was the economist Walter Heller .
Web links
- The Heller Group website at Harvard
- The Eric J. Heller Gallery
- International Academy of Quantum and Molecular Sciences
- Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (PDF; 3.3 MB), p. 2
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Eric J. Heller at academictree.org, accessed on February 9, 2018.
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| SURNAME | Heller, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heller, Eric Johnson (full name); Heller, Rick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |