Theodore Holstein

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Theodore "Ted" David Holstein (born September 18, 1915 in New York City , † May 8, 1985 ) was an American theoretical physicist ( solid state physics , atomic physics ).

Holstein graduated from New York University with a Bachelor's degree in 1935 and was there in 1940 with the work passage of neutrons through Ferromagnetic Materials at Otto Halpern doctorate (1936 he received a master's degree from Columbia University ). From 1941 he was a physicist in the research laboratories of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation . There he became a Research Physicist in 1942, an Advanced Physicist in 1949 and a Consulting Physicist in 1952. In 1960 he left Westinghouse and became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh . In 1965 he became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles .

With Henry Primakoff he introduced the Holstein-Primakoff transformation in 1940 . It is important for the theory of spin waves .

In 1947, in atomic physics, he was the first to correctly deal with the capture of resonance radiation in gases (later applied in laser physics, astrophysics and photochemistry, but also found application in phonons and in solids).

Other important works were on the polaron (introduction of the small polaron ), the absorption of metals in the infrared, a microscopic theory of the collision drag phenomenon by Brian Pippard (entrainment of the Fermi surface by the ultrasonic wave in the theory of the absorption of ultrasound), on Bloch- Electrons in magnetic fields (Hall effect) and his review article on the transport properties in an electron-phonon gas. He corrected the Förster-Dexter theory of photoinduced energy transfer between molecules and found new mechanisms for energy transfer in disordered systems.

In 1976 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1981 of the National Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Raymond L. Orbach (Ed.), Condensed Matter Physics: The Theodore D. Holstein Symposium, Springer 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodore Holstein in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Holstein, Primakoff, Field Dependence of the Intrinsic Domain Magnetization of a Ferromagnet, Phys. Rev., Vol. 58, pp. 1098-1113
  3. ↑ Holstein, Imprisonment of Resonance Radiation in Gases, Phys. Rev., Volume 72, 1947, p. 1212, abstract
  4. ↑ Holstein, Studies of polaron motion, Part 1, Annals of Physics, Volume 8, 1959, pp. 325-342, Part 2, pp. 343-389, Part 3 with L. Friedman, Annals of Physics, Volume 21, 1963 , P. 494, part 4 with David Emin, Annals of Physics, Volume 53, 1969, pp. 439-520
  5. ↑ Holstein, Theory of transport phenomena in an electron-phonon gas, Annals of Physics, Volume 29, 1964, pp. 410-535
personal data
SURNAME Holstein, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holstein, Theodore Davis; Holstein, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1985