Jakob Yngvason
Jakob Yngvason | |
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Mathematical Physics, Physics | |
| Institutions | University of Vienna |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans-Jürgen Borchers |
Jakob Yngvason (born 23 November 1945) is an Icelandic/Austrian physicist and emeritus professor of
Bose–Einstein condensation. He is co-author, together with Elliott H. Lieb, Jan Philip Solovej and Robert Seiringer, of a monograph on Bose gases.[1]
Career
After graduating from high school in 1964 in
Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters
, Copenhagen.
For their theoretical work in thermodynamics, Yngvason and Lieb received the
Levi Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 2002, for a paper on the mathematical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics.[2] In 2004,he received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
.
Personal life
Yngvason is married to Guðrún Kvaran, professor of lexicography at the University of Iceland; they have two children.[3]
References
- ^ Lieb, Elliott H.; Seiringer, Robert;
Solovej, Jan Philip; Yngvason, Jakob: "The mathematics of the Bose gas and its condensation". Oberwolfach Seminars, 34. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 2005. viii+203 pp. ISBN 978-3-7643-7336-8; 3-7643-7336-9.
- ^ 2002 Conant Prize, Notices of the AMS, 49, 481–482 (2002), https://www.ams.org/notices/200204/comm-conantprz.pdf
- ^ Guðrún Kvaran (December 2010). "Curriculum vitæ". Archived from the original on 2016-11-06. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
External links
- Home page at Vienna University
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120306040442/http://www.oeaw.ac.at/shared/news/2004/press_inf_20041011.html
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