Eugene P. Gross
Eugene P. Gross | |
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Born | 27 June 1926 |
Thesis | Theory of Plasma Oscillations (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | David Bohm |
Doctoral students | Daniel Amit |
Eugene Paul Gross (27 June 1926 – 19 January 1991) was a theoretical
Education and work
Gross obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1948, where he was one of the first graduate students of David Bohm.[1]
Gross was
In 1956 Gross was appointed associate professor at Brandeis University, where he became full professor in 1961.
From 1963 to 1964 he was a
With Prabhu L. Bhatnagar and Max Krook, Gross introduced the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator in a paper in Physical Review in 1954.[2] In 1961 Gross[3] and separately Lev Pitaevskii[4] presented what is now known as the Gross–Pitaevskii equation.
His fields of research pertained to quantum liquids, plasmas, solids, liquid helium and the kinetic theory of gases.
Gross published over 80 scientific articles, including work with Bohm published 1949/1950 and work with P. L. Bhatnagar and M. Krook of 1954.
References
- ^ Russell Olwell: Physics and Politics in Cold War America: The Two Exiles of David Bohm (essay that won the 1993 Benjamin M. Siegel prize in Science, Technology, and Society for the best work by a student on issues in science, technology, and society)
- ^ P.L. Bhatnagar; E.P. Gross; M. Krook (1954). "A Model for Collision Processes in Gases. I. Small Amplitude Processes in Charged and Neutral One-Component Systems". .
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- Soviet Physics JETP. 13 (2): 451–454. Archived from the originalon 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
Further reading
- "Eugene P. Gross, Curriculum vitae". Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- "Eugene P. Gross, 64, Theoretical Physicist". The New York Times. January 25, 1991.