Seth Putterman
Seth Putterman (* 1945 ) is an American physicist .
He studied physics at the Cooper Union in New York and at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena . He graduated in 1966. In 1970 he received his doctorate under George Uhlenbeck (Postulation of the electron spin and its quantization in 1925) at Rockefeller University in New York. In 1972 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).
Putterman is now a professor of physics and astronomy at the California Nanosystems Institute at the University of California (UCLA) . His main research interests are energy-focusing phenomena in non-linear, continuous systems, with particular interest in turbulence , sonoluminescence , sonofusion and pyrofusion .
In 1997 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
literature
- Geoff Brumfiel in Nature , Vol. 437 (2005), p. 1224, ISSN 0028-0836
- Hannelore Dittmar-Ilgen in Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Vol. 9 (2006), p. 484, ISSN 0178-1049
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 25, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Putterman, Seth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |