Norman Zabusky

Norman J. Zabusky ( born January 4, 1929 in Brooklyn ) is an American physicist.

Zabusky studied electrical engineering at the City College of New York (Bachelor 1951) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( master's degree in 1953 ). Then he turned to theoretical physics at Caltech in 1959 and his doctorate with a thesis on Plasma Physics ( in Milton Plesset ). 1961 to 1976 he was a physicist at Bell Laboratories and then professor of mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1988 he became professor of numerical hydrodynamics at Rutgers University. Following his retirement in 2006, he went to the Weizmann Institute in Israel.

Zabusky dealt in particular with numerical hydrodynamics and their visualization ( called by him Visio metric ). He became famous for the discovery of Solitonenlösungen the Korteweg -de Vries equation with Martin Kruskal 1965. 1986 he received the Potts Medal of the Franklin Institute and the 2003 Otto Laporte Award for his pioneering work and the subsequent development of non-linear physics and computer-based hydrodynamics including the soliton dynamics and edge - V- states in two-dimensional flows, vortex projectiles for accelerated inhomogeneous flows and Visio metric for modeling