Thomas E. Wainwright
Thomas Everett Wainwright (born September 22, 1927 in Seattle , † November 27, 2007 in Walnut Creek ) was an American physicist .
Life
Wainwright received his bachelor's degree from Montana State College in 1950 and his PhD in physics from the University of Notre Dame in 1954 . There he was an instructor in physics in 1953/54. From 1954 he was a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .
He is best known as the pioneer of molecular dynamics simulation with Bernie Alder in the late 1950s.
He was a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1973 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize .
Publications
- Electronic energy bands in crystals , Notre Dame, Ind., 1954 (dissertation)
- with Alder: Phase transition for a hard sphere system , J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 27, 1957, pp. 1208-1209.
- with Alder: Molecular dynamics computations for the hard sphere system , Il Nuovo Cimento, Volume 9, 1958, Suppl. 1, pp. 116-132
- with Alder: Molecular motions , San Francisco: WH Freeman, 1959.
- with Alder: Phase transition in elastic disks , Physical Review, Volume 127, 1962, p. 359
- with Alder: Decay of the velocity autocorrelation function , Physical Review A, Volume 1, 1970, p. 18
literature
- B. Alder: In Memoriam: Thomas E. Wainwright, September 22, 1927 - November 27, 2007, Progr. Theor. Phys., Supplement, No. 178, 2009, pp. 1-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas E. Wainwright in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wainwright, Thomas E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wainwright, Thomas Everett |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 2007 |
| Place of death | Walnut Creek (Location, California) |