Kerson Huang

Kerson Huang (* 1928 in Nanning, China ) is a Chinese -born American theoretical physicist.

Huang studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where in 1950 his bachelor's degree and in 1953 made ​​his doctorate. 1955 to 1957 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and then at MIT, where he became professor emeritus in 1999.

Huang worked on statistical mechanics ( theory of Bose -Einstein condensates or Bose gases) and quantum field theory. He is known by various textbooks, particularly through his textbook on statistical mechanics in the 1960s. In the 2000s he turned to biophysics.

He also translated the Rubayat of Omar Khayyam from the well-known English translation by Fitzgerald into Chinese (Taiwan 1965, 1986) and the I Ching into English (1984, World Scientific, Workman Publishing, 1987, with his wife Rosemary Huang ).

Writings

  • Statistical Mechanics. John Wiley, 1964. 2nd edition, 1987, ISBN 0471815187
  • Introduction to statistical physics. Taylor and Francis, 2001, ISBN 0-7484-0941-6.
  • Quantum field theory -from operators to path integrals. Wiley, 1998, ISBN 0-471-14120-8.
  • Quarks, leptons and gauge fields. World Scientific, 1982. 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 981-02-0659-3.
  • Lectures on Statistical physics and protein folding. World Scientific, 2005.
  • Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields. World Scientific, 2007.
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