Jorge E. Hirsch

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Jorge E. Hirsch
Professor Jorge E. Hirsch giving a talk
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires (UG)
University of Chicago (PhD)
Known forInventor of h-index
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, San Diego
ThesisLow-temperature thermodynamic properties of a random anisotropic antiferromagnetic chain (1980)
Websitejorge.physics.ucsd.edu

Jorge Eduardo Hirsch (born 1953) is an

scholar indices.[2][3]

Background

Hirsch was born in

PhD from the University of Chicago in 1980 and served as a post-doctoral research associate in the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Following this experience, he joined the University of California, San Diego Department of Physics in 1983.[4]

Research

Physics

Hirsch's scientific work is involved with understanding collective, large-scale properties of solids, such as

electrons in conventional BCS theory.[5] He believes that there is a single mechanism of superconductivity for all materials that explains the Meissner effect
and differs from the conventional mechanism in several fundamental aspects.

Hirsch was involved in a heated debate about a 2020 report of high temperature superconductivity. In February 2022 he was banned from posting papers for 6 months at the ArXiv for submitting manuscripts that had "inflammatory content and unprofessional language".[6] On March 21, 2023 Hirsch presented at the American Physical Society virtual March meeting regarding the society's position on analysis of published data with regard to the controversial room temperature superconductivity debate.[7] Hirsch also provided an overview of his perspective on the controversy with fellow UCSD colleague Brian Keating on the podcast Into the Impossible.[8]

Bibliometrics

The

bibliometric parameter that combines both numbers of articles published by a given scientist and the numbers of citations of those articles in a single parameter.[9]

Nuclear war analyses

During early 2006 Hirsch argued that "multiple pieces of independent evidence suggest that America is embarked in a premeditated path that will lead inexorably to the use of nuclear weapons against Iran in the very near future"[10] and that "neither the media nor Congress are bringing up the inconvenient little fact that the military option will necessarily lead to the use of nuclear weapons against Iran."[11]

He also speculated that in order to justify an attack on Iran using nuclear weapons, US authorities might make a false, but difficult to disprove, claim that Iranian

avian flu virus which would be transmissible from human to human, and which would be transported to Europe by birds migrating north with the onset of the northern summer of 2006.[12]

In April 2006, Hirsch initiated a letter to President George W. Bush, co-signed by twelve other physicists, warning of the dangers of using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran.[13] The letter, dated April 17, was in response to articles in The New Yorker and The Washington Post that indicated the Pentagon was actively considering such options.

References

  1. ^ "Jorge Hirsch". Physics.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  2. ^
    PMID 16275915
    .
  3. ^ "Your h-score". Archived from the original on December 7, 2009.
  4. ^ "Mark Machina and Jorge Hirsch receive Sloan Research Fellowships". libraries.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  5. S2CID 119120000. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  6. doi:10.1126/science.adb2023
    . Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  7. ^ "PP10: V: Popular Physics". march.aps.org. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  8. ^ RED FLAGS! Superconductor or FRAUD? Jorge Hirsch on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast, retrieved 2023-06-09
  9. ^ "Jorge Hirsch: the man behind the metric". Research Trends. December 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  10. ^ Hirsch, Jorge (2006-01-09). "How to Stop the Planned Nuking of Iran". Antiwar.com Original. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  11. ^ "America and Iran: At the Brink of the Abyss". Antiwar.com Original. 2006-02-20. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  12. ^ "Iran and Bird Flu: The Perfect Casus Belli?". Antiwar.com Original. 2006-03-15. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  13. ^ "Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush, Call Nuclear Weapons Against Iran 'Gravely Irresponsible'". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-12.

External links

  • Hirsch's research and public service page
  • Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results "The first inquiry was initiated after Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter theorist at the University of California, San Diego, sent complaints to Rochester. The university asked three unnamed internal reviewers, and Dias contacted one external reviewer to examine Hirsch’s claims. Information in the report suggests that the external reviewer is Maddury Somayazulu, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois." [1]
  • Superconductor or FRAUD? Jorge Hirsch on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast [[2]]
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