Timothy Boyer

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Timothy Howard Boyer (born March 20, 1941 in New York City ) is an American theoretical physicist.

Boyer graduated from Yale University (bachelor's degree in 1962) and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1968 . As a post-doctoral student , he was at the University of Maryland (Center for Theoretical Physics) from 1968 to 1970 and became Assistant Professor in 1970 , Associate Professor in 1974 and Professor at City College of New York (CCNY) in 1980 .

He is a main representative of stochastic electrodynamics, an approach of classical electrodynamics with the approach of a field of random vacuum fluctuations. In 1980 he explained the Unruh effect and derived Van der Waals forces .

In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

He has been married since 1977 and has two children.

Fonts

  • The classical vacuum, Scientific American, Volume 253, Issue 2, 1985, pp. 70-78
  • Random electrodynamics: The theory of classical electrodynamics with classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation, Phys. Rev. D 11, 1975, pp. 790-808
  • Retarded van der Waals forces at all distances derived from classical electrodynamics with classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation, Physical Review A 7, 1973, pp. 1832-40
  • Thermal effects of acceleration through random classical radiation, Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 21, 1980, 2137-2148
  • A brief survey of stochastic electrodynamics, in: AO Barut (Ed.), Foundations of radiation theory and quantum electrodynamics, Springer, 1980, pp. 49-83

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References and comments

  1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Timothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyer, Timothy Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City