Herch Moysés Nussenzveig

Herch Moysés Nussenzveig, sometimes cited HM ​​Nussenzweig, ( born January 16, 1933, São Paulo) is a Brazilian theoretical physicist.

Life and work

Nussenzveig was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, made his bachelor's degree in 1954 and his doctorate in 1957 in São Paulo. He studied with Guido Beck and his successor, David Bohm and Mario 's Mountain, where he received his doctorate. In defending his doctorate, he was also tested by Richard Feynman, who just had to improve physics education in Brazil at that time. As a post-doc, he was at the University of Birmingham with Rudolf Peierls, in Zurich with Res Jost and the Netherlands at Léon Van Hove at the University of Utrecht and NG van Kampen at the University of Eindhoven. After that, he was assistant professor from 1956 to 1960 in São Paulo and from 1962 to 1968 at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research ( CBPF ) in Rio. 1964/65 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. Even during the military dictatorship in Brazil, he was the late 1960s to mid-1970s in the United States, 1969-1975 Professor and Senior Researcher at the University of Rochester (including with Elliott Montroll ). After that, he was professor from 1975 to 1983 in São Paulo, and 1983 to 1994 at the Pontifical Catholic University do Rio de Janeiro ( PUCRJ ). From 1994 he was professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ( UFRJ ), where he retired in 2003.

Nussenzveig tackled, among other things, in the 1960s with the then current analytic S- matrix theory (with the theory of Regge poles and dispersion relations ) of elementary particles and scattering and diffraction theory in optics, specifically the Mie scattering, where the techniques of complex angular momentum from the elementary theory anwandte. Applications found this particular in the theory of the rainbow and other phenomena of atmospheric optics.

In 1986 he was awarded the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the South American Academy of Sciences and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. In 1993, a chair at Tel Aviv University was named after him. In 1999 he received the Prize of the Brazilian Jabuti book producer and 1995 the price Almirante Alvaro Alberto. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit of Science of Brazil. 1981 to 1983 he was president of the Brazilian Physical Society.

Writings

  • Diffraction effects in semiclassical scattering, Cambridge University Press 2006
  • Introduction to quantum optics, Gordon and Breach 1973
  • Causality and dispersion relations, Academic Press 1972
  • Curso de Fisica basica, 4 volumes, Edgard Blücher, Sao Paulo 1996

Essays on the theory of the rainbow:

  • The Theory of the Rainbow, Scientific American, Bd.236, 1977, No.4, p.116
  • High frequency scattering by impenetrable to sphere, Ann. of Phys., Vol 34, 1965, pp. 23-95.
  • High -frequency scattering by a transparent sphere, II Theory of the rainbow and the glory, J. Math Phys., Bd.10, 1969, p.125 -176
  • Complex angular momentum theory of the rainbow and the glory, J. Opt Soc. Am., Vol 69, 1979, p 1068
  • With V. Khare: Theory of the Rainbow, Physical Review Letters, vol 33, 1974, S.976
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