László Tisza

László Tisza (* July 7, 1907 in Budapest, † April 15, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American physicist of Hungarian origin. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Life

Tisza studied mathematics in Budapest. The physics, he turned to when he was known in 1928 at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen Max Born in quantum mechanics. After that he went to Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig, where he published a paper on molecular spectra with another Hungarian PhD, Edward Teller. There he wrote about his doctoral thesis, which he sent to Budapest. He then joined the group of Lev Landau in Kharkov, influenced the applications of thermodynamics in modern physics it strong. This was also the area was known in the Tisza. In 1937 he studied with Fritz London in Paris whose work on superfluids (liquid helium) to know and developed the two-liquid theory of liquid helium ( superfluid and normal phase).

In 1941 he emigrated to the United States and joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ), where he became a professor. There, he studied alongside theoretical physics (especially thermodynamics) and later with the history of science and philosophy, particularly in terms of quantum mechanics.

1973 Tisza became Professor Emeritus.

Writings

• The Thermodynamics of Phase Equilibrium, Annals of Physics, vol 13, 1961, pp. 1-92
• With PM Quay Statistical Thermodynamics of Equilibrium, Annals of Physics, vol 25, 1963, pp. 49-90
• Generalized Thermodynamics, MIT Press, Cambridge / Massachusetts 1966
• Integration of Classical and Quantum Physics, Physical Review A, Vol 40, 1989, p 6781-6790