Fred Cummings

Frederick W. "Fred" Cummings ( born November 21, 1931 in New Orleans) is a theoretical physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. His research was quantum electrodynamics, many-body theory and nonlinear dynamics.

Cummings studied at Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and in 1960 received his doctorate from Stanford University with Edwin Thompson Jaynes in physics. After that, he was until 1963. Than research physicist at the Philco Corporation in California and in 1963 assistant professor and later professor at the University of California at Riverside He retired in 1993.

His most important works include the " Jaynes -Cummings model " with Jaynes (1963). He dealt with coherence of radiation and cooperative phenomena. In recent years he has turned his interest in problems of developmental biology / morphogenesis and evolution.

He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1975/76 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.