Robert Zwanzig
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Robert Walter Zwanzig (9 April 1928[1] – May 15, 2014[2]) was an American theoretical physicist and chemist who made important contributions to the statistical mechanics of irreversible processes, protein folding, and the theory of liquids and gases.
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Robert Zwanzig | |
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Born | 9 April 1928 Brooklyn, New York City, United States |
Died | May 15, 2014 Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
Alma mater | Caltech |
Known for | Zwanzig equation Zwanzig projection operator Nakajima–Zwanzig equation Mori–Zwanzig formalism |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | University of Maryland |
Thesis | Quantum Hydrodynamics: a statistical mechanical theory of light scattering from simple non-polar fluids (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | John G. Kirkwood |
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