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  Leo Kadanoff, leading figure in theoretical physics, 1937-2015 Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 20:36 -0500
    Re: Leo Kadanoff, leading figure in theoretical physics, 1937-2015 jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-01 02:23 +0000

#529593 — Leo Kadanoff, leading figure in theoretical physics, 1937-2015

Leo Kadanoff, leading figure in theoretical physics, 1937-2015
> http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/10/30/leo-kadanoff-leading-figure-theoretical-physics-1937-2015#sthash.040Lzf9t.dpuf


> Theoretical physicist Leo Kadanoff, who transformed theory and
> practice across scientific disciplines, died of respiratory failure
> on Oct. 26 in Chicago. He was 78.

> “Leo was a prodigious scientist,” said his longtime UChicago
> colleague Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service
> Professor in Physics. “His work on statistical mechanics is one of
> the great achievements of 20th-century theoretical physics. It laid
> the conceptual and mathematical foundations for some of the most
> insightful and effective tools on which our modern understanding of
> nature is based.”

> Kadanoff’s work has applications throughout physics, ranging from
> condensed matter (liquids and solids) to elementary particles, Nagel
> said, with the reach of his work extending to mathematics and other
> sciences.

> - See more at:
> http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/10/30/leo-kadanoff-leading-figure-theoretical-physics-1937-2015#sthash.040Lzf9t.dpuf


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Leo Kadanoff, leading figure in theoretical physics, 1937-2015
>> http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/10/30/leo-kadanoff-leading-figure-theoretical-physics-1937-2015#sthash.040Lzf9t.dpuf
> 
> 
>> Theoretical physicist Leo Kadanoff, who transformed theory and
>> practice across scientific disciplines, died of respiratory failure
>> on Oct. 26 in Chicago. He was 78.
> 
>> ?Leo was a prodigious scientist,? said his longtime UChicago
>> colleague Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service
>> Professor in Physics. ?His work on statistical mechanics is one of
>> the great achievements of 20th-century theoretical physics. It laid
>> the conceptual and mathematical foundations for some of the most
>> insightful and effective tools on which our modern understanding of
>> nature is based.?
> 
>> Kadanoff?s work has applications throughout physics, ranging from
>> condensed matter (liquids and solids) to elementary particles, Nagel
>> said, with the reach of his work extending to mathematics and other
>> sciences.
> 
>> - See more at:
>> http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/10/30/leo-kadanoff-leading-figure-theoretical-physics-1937-2015#sthash.040Lzf9t.dpuf
> 
> 
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> community, and physics-related social issues.


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