Robert B. Wiringa

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Robert Bruce Wiringa (born March 18, 1950 in Houston , Texas ) is an American theoretical nuclear physicist.

Wiringa studied at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Bachelor 1972) and received his doctorate in 1978 with Vijay Pandharipande at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he previously received his master's degree in 1974. As a post-doc he spent two years at Los Alamos National Laboratory before moving to the Argonne National Laboratory in 1981 , where he has been Assistant Physicist since 1983, Physicist since 1987 and Senior Physicist since 2000, and headed the physics theory group from 1994 to 2001. In 1993 he was visiting professor at Caltech .

Wiringa dealt with the nucleon-nucleon interaction, the three-nucleon interaction, quantum mechanical Monte Carlo calculations on nuclear structure (from the 1980s partly with Pandharipande and Steven C. Pieper ) and nuclear reactions and studies on dense nuclear matter, for example in Neutron stars.

He was co-editor of Physical Review C.

In 2010 he and Steven C. Pieper, with whom he worked together in Argonne for many years, received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics for, according to the laudation, the development of quantitative, ab initio calculations of the properties of nuclei of mass numbers A. = 6 to A = 12, including deep physical insights into the nature of nuclear forces and the application of modern methods of scientific computing in physics . He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1999 .

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  • From Deuterons to Neutrons Stars - variations in nuclear many body theory, Rev.Mod.Phys., Vol. 65, 1993, pp. 231-242
  • with Pieper Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of light nuclei , Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci., Vol. 51 2001, p. 53
  • with Joseph Carlson Variational MC Techniques in Nuclear Physics , in Langanke, Maruhn, Koonin (eds.) Computational Nuclear Physics , Vol. 1, Springer 1990

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SURNAME Wiringa, Robert B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiringa, Robert Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas