Gerald E. Brown
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NORDITA Princeton University | |
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| Doctoral advisors | Gregory Breit (at Yale) Rudolf Peierls (at Birmingham) |
| Doctoral students | Elliott H. Lieb Che-Ming Ko Ulf-G. Meißner Kevin S. Bedell |
| Website | tonic |
Gerald Edward Brown (also known as Gerry Brown, July 22, 1926 - May 31, 2013)[1] was an American theoretical physicist who worked on nuclear physics and astrophysics. Since 1968 he had been a professor at the Stony Brook University.[2] He was a distinguished professor emeritus of the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University.
Life and work
Brown received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1946 from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he became Distinguished Professor of Physics in 1988.[2]
Brown worked first in theoretical atomic physics (self-ionization of the vacuum with Geoff Ravenhall in 1951,
Chiral bag model).[3] In the 1980s he also worked together with K. Bedell on Fermi liquid theory
. Toward the end of Bethe's life, Bethe told Brown to explain his work to the rest of the world.
Awards and recognition
Brown received an honorary doctorate from the Helsinki (1982), Birmingham (1990) and Copenhagen (1998).[2]
- Fellow of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1966 Silver Medal of the University of Helsinki
- 1974 Haederspris of the Niels Bohr Institute
- 1975 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[2]
- 1976 Boris Pregel Award of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1978 Academician of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1982 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society
- 1992 John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute
- 1996 Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
- 2001 Hans A. Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society
- Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4]
Selected works
- "Unified theory of nuclear models", North Holland, Interscience 1964, new edition entitled "Unified theory of nuclear models and forces", North Holland 1967, 1971
- with A. D. Jackson "The Nucleon Nucleon Interaction", North Holland 1976
- "Many body problems", North Holland 1972
- with Ravenhall "On the interaction of two electrons", Proceedings of the Royal Society A 208, 1951, 552
- with Bolsteri "Dipole state in nuclei", Physical Review Letters, Bd.3, 1959, 472
- "Die Entdeckung der Multipol-Riesenresonanzen in Atomkernen", Physikalische Blätter 1997, S.710 (Vortrag aus Anlass der Verleihung der Max Planck Medaille der DPG)
- with Kuo "Structure of finite nuclei and the free Nucleon-Nucleon interaction: an application to O18 and F18", Nuclear Physics A, Bd.85, 1966, S.40–86
- Gerald E. Brown, .
- with Rho "Towards a basis in QCD for nuclear physics", Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics Bd. 16, 1986, 245
- Gerald E. Brown, PMID 10043599.
- "The structure of the Nucleon", Physics Today January 1983
- with Zahed "The Skyrme Model", Physics Reports, Bd.142, 1986, S.1–102
- with Weise, Baym, Speth "Relativistic effects in nuclear physics", Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics, Bd. 17, 1987, 37
- with Bethe, Applegate, Lattimer "Evolution of state in the gravitational collapse of stars", Nuclear Physics A 324, 1979, S.487
- doi:10.1086/306265.
- with Bethe "How a Supernova explodes", Scientific American Mai 1985
References
- ^ "Gerald Edward Brown". Ivory.idyll.org. Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
- ^ a b c d CV from Homepage of Gerald Brown
- ^ Description of Brown in list of Hans A. Bethe Prize winners of the American Physical Society
- ^ "Gruppe 2: Fysikkfag (herunder astronomi, fysikk og geofysikk)" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
External links
- Dr. Brown's faculty page
- Homepage of the Nuclear Theory Group of SUNY in Stony Brook
- Biography of Brown from the APS
- Stories about Gerry Brown
- FROM NUCLEI TO STARS – Festschrift in Honor of Gerald E Brown
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