Kerson Huang
Kerson Huang (
theoretical physicist
and translator.
Huang was born in
Bose–Einstein condensation and quantum field theory. At MIT, he had many PhD students in theoretical physics including Raymond G. Vickson[1] who became a professor in Operations Research at the University of Waterloo. After retiring in 1999, he wrote on biophysics and was also a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.[2]
Huang was best known to Chinese readers as the translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; while a graduate student in physics, he adapted Edward FitzGerald's famous adaptation into Classical Chinese verse. The book (Chinese: 魯拜集) had been out of print for years, but was reprinted in Taiwan in 1989. With his wife Rosemary, Huang also translated the ancient divination text I Ching into English.[3]
Huang died on 1 September 2016 at the age of 88.[4]
Books
- 2016. A Superfluid Universe. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 978-981-3148-45-1
- 2014. Huang, Kerson (2014). I Ching: The Oracle (Revised ed.). Hackensack, New Jersey: World Scientific. p. 208. ISBN 978-981-4522-60-1.
- 2007. Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields. World Scientific. Aimed at educated lay readers.
- 2005. Lectures on Statistical Physics and Protein Folding. World Scientific. ISBN 981-256-143-9
- 2001. Introduction to Statistical Physics. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0941-6
- 1998. Quantum Field Theory: From Operators to Path Integrals. John Wiley & Sons.
- 1992. Quarks, Leptons and Gauge Fields, 2nd ed. World Scientific. ISBN 981-02-0659-3
- 1987. Statistical Mechanics, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons.
- 1984. I Ching, the Oracle. World Scientific. ISBN 9971-966-25-5
References
- ^ Kerson Huang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ^ "Interview with Professor Kerson Huang" (PDF). Asia Pacific Biotech News. 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ "Kerson Huang, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 88". MIT News. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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