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This is someone you may never have heard of, but in the field of condensed matter physics, he is a GIANT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/...nsightful-and-influential-physicist-dies.html
He could have won the Nobel Prize for the theory of superconductivity, but timing worked against him in the history of physics. He and Bardeen laid the ground work for the BCS theory.
The book on Fermi Liquid theory that he co-authored with Nozieres was practically my "bible" during my graduate school years. And then this two PRL papers on spin-fluctuation in high-Tc superconductors in the early 1990's were ground-breaking and had major impact on my own research work.
And of course, he became one of my "heroes" when he (along with other prominent condensed matter physicists such as Laughlin and Anderson) brought up the significance of emergent phenomena (mentioned in the NY Times article).
His work has already impacted many of the things we know of today, especially in the physics of materials. He truly is a giant in the field of physics.
Zz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/...nsightful-and-influential-physicist-dies.html
He could have won the Nobel Prize for the theory of superconductivity, but timing worked against him in the history of physics. He and Bardeen laid the ground work for the BCS theory.
The book on Fermi Liquid theory that he co-authored with Nozieres was practically my "bible" during my graduate school years. And then this two PRL papers on spin-fluctuation in high-Tc superconductors in the early 1990's were ground-breaking and had major impact on my own research work.
And of course, he became one of my "heroes" when he (along with other prominent condensed matter physicists such as Laughlin and Anderson) brought up the significance of emergent phenomena (mentioned in the NY Times article).
His work has already impacted many of the things we know of today, especially in the physics of materials. He truly is a giant in the field of physics.
Zz.