H. Eugene Stanley

Harry Eugene Stanley ( born March 28, 1941 in Norman, Oklahoma) is an American physicist.

Life and work

Harry Eugene ( "Gene " ) Stanley was born as the son of Harry Eugene and Ruth Stanley. In 1962, he received his bachelor's degree in physics from Wesleyan University. From 1962 to 1963 he was a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Cologne and dealt with experimental biophysics. His supervisor there was Max Delbrück, whom he describes as the most important mentor in his career. Then he was a PhD student at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate at Thomas A. Kaplan and John H. van Vleck 1967. He then worked in the solid state physics group at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1968 he moved as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. The following year, he returned to MIT, where he was assistant professor ( 1969-71 ), associate professor ( 1971-73 ) and associate Hermann -von- Helmholtz professor ( 1973-76 ). In 1975 he was a visiting professor in Osaka, Japan. Since 1976 he has been professor of physics at Boston University, since 1978 also professor of physiology and director of the Center for Polymers and since 2007 also professor of medical engineering and chemistry. Visiting professor taken him in 1979 at the École normale supérieure, 1981 at the Peking University and in 1982 at the Seoul National University.

Stanley works in various fields of physics and its neighboring disciplines. In particular, the statistical mechanics, theoretical condensed matter physics, the structure and dynamics of polymers and glasses, phase transitions, surface physics, granular matter, critical phenomena, fractals, and chaos theory and the structure of liquid water interest him. But also in the application of statistical mechanics, he has made ​​significant contributions to the economy as physics, Alzheimer's disease, heart rate measurements, networks and noncoding DNA regions.

Gene Stanley was married to Idahlia Dessauer on June 2, 1967 until her death in March 2003; their three children are Jannah, Michael and Rachel.

Publications

Stanley published about 700 articles in scientific journals the following books:

  • Critical pheonomena in Heisenberg models of magnetism. Dissertation, 1967
  • Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-19-505316-8
  • Dietrich Stauffer: From Newton to Mandelbrot. A Primer in Theoretical Physics. Springer, Berlin [ et al ], 1990, ISBN 3-540-52661-7
  • With K. Brecher, SV Buldyrev, P. Garik, SM Milosevic, Edwin F. Taylor and Paul A. Trumfio: Fractals in Science. Springer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-540-94361-7
  • Albert - László Barabási with: Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-48308-5
  • Dietrich Stauffer and Annick Lesne: Cours de physique. Springer, Paris [u a ] 1999, ISBN 2-287-59674-7
  • Rosario N. Mantegna with: Introduction to Econophysics. Correlations and Complexity in Finance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-62008-2
  • More than 15 books edited

Video lecture

  • Applications of Statistical Physics to Understanding Complex Systems, complete video of a lecture (approx. 1 hour) on an International Conf on econophysics in Sept. 2008, just after the collapse of Lehman Brothers,

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Norman (Oklahoma) Boltzmann Medal Lilienfeld Prize Northwestern University Phi Beta Kappa Society Integrated Authority File
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