Harry Swinney
Harry Leonard Swinney ( born April 10, 1939 in Opelousas, Louisiana) is an American physicist who is known for his contributions in the field of the dynamic system.
Curriculum vitae
Swinney graduated from Rhodes College in 1961 with a Bachelor and received the Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1968. 1971 he became Assistant Professor at New York University, 1973 Associate Professor, and in 1978 professor at the City University of New York. He went in 1978 to the University of Texas at Austin, where he was Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics. He still has this position. From 1984 he was there Trull Centennial Professor of Physics and Sid Richardson Foundation Regents from 1990 Professor of Physics.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991 ), the National Academy of Sciences ( 1992) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( 1999). In 1995 he received the hydrodynamics Prize of the American Physical Society, 2012, Lewis Fry Richardson Medal and 2013, the Boltzmann Medal.
Working
Swinney was a pioneer of chaos theory. Known are his experiments with Jerry Gollub in the onset of turbulence of fluids between rotating cylinders (Taylor - Couette flow ). His general research interests instability, chaos, pattern formation and turbulence in systems deviate from the equilibrium by temperature, speed, concentration, etc..