Professor of Physics (emeritus)
University of California, Santa Cruz
Address :
Physics Department,
CA 95064
I received my Ph.d in physics at Cornell under Hans Bethe in 1960.
After a year and a half as a fellow at the Princeton Institute for
Advanced Studies,
I taught and did research in particle physics at Columbia and Stanford before coming in 1966 to the University
of California at Santa Cruz. I was a founding member
of its Physics Dept. initiating its program of particle
and theoretical condensed matter physics. I retired from teaching in 1994
and now
I am a Reseach Professor of Physics.
My primary research interests have been in particle physics,
condensed matter physics, astrophysics,
and nonlinear dynamics.
I also have had a long standing interest in the history of
physics and mathematics, particularly during the 17-century,
and I published articles on the works of Hooke, Newton
and Huygens, and book reviews in this field. More recently
I have written about more contemporary scientist like Poincare, Chandrasekhar and Stoner.
I also have been in various activities which have brought
historians of science and physicists
together.
For a list of publications and other activities, see publications,
recent publications
publicationsnew
Kitchen sink experiments in fluid flow
Kitchen sink experiment in fluid flow
To watch these videos infull screen, click on the four petal icon at the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
Link to a pdf file of the slides
http://www.dropbox.com/s/3b2hepa663mxja0/librarychemistrytalk14%20copy.pdf?dl=0