Leo Phillip Kadanoff

Affiliations: 
1962-1969 Physics University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL 
 1969-1978 Brown University, Providence, RI 
 1978-2015 Physics University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 
Area:
Condensed matter physics, chaos, turbulence.
Website:
http://jfi.uchicago.edu/~leop/
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Bio:

(1937 - 2015)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/54014.html
https://history.aip.org/phn/11602026.html
http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/10/30/leo-kadanoff-leading-figure-theoretical-physics-1937-2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.3146
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kadanoff
http://library.nd.edu/chemistry/resources/genealogy/physics/documents/KadanoffLP.pdf
http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=61350
Invented the renormalization group and showed universality of critical scaling exponents.

Mean distance: 11.01 (cluster 6)
 
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Cross-listing: Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Tree

Parents

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Roy Jay Glauber grad student 1960 Harvard
Paul Cecil Martin grad student 1960 Harvard

Children

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Udayan Mohanty grad student Brown
Chao Tang grad student Chicago
David C. Langreth grad student 1964 UIUC
Aad M. M. Pruisken grad student 1979 Brown
Scott Shenker grad student 1983 Chicago (Computer Science Tree)
Michael Widom grad student 1983 Chicago
David B. Bensimon grad student 1986 Chicago
Marcelo O. Magnasco grad student 1989-1991 Chicago (Neurotree)
Emily SC Ching grad student 1992 Chicago
Michael P. Brenner grad student 1994 Chicago
Jane Wang grad student 1996 Chicago
Annette (Peko) Hosoi grad student 1997 Chicago
Moses M. Hohman grad student 2000 Chicago
Zhitong M. Zhang grad student 2000 Chicago
Cheng Yang grad student 2003 Chicago
Debra Daugherty grad student 2007 Chicago
Panagiotis Oikonomou grad student 2008 Chicago
Hui Dai grad student 2010 Chicago
Raymond E. Goldstein post-doc 1988-1991 Chicago
Detlef Lohse post-doc 1993-1995 Chicago

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Greg Huber collaborator Chicago
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Kadanoff LP. (2017) Entropy is in Flux V3.4 Journal of Statistical Physics. 167: 1039-1079
Movassagh R, Kadanoff LP. (2016) Eigenpairs of Toeplitz and Disordered Toeplitz Matrices with a Fisher–Hartwig Symbol Journal of Statistical Physics. 167: 959-996
Abarzhi SI, Fukumoto Y, Kadanoff LP. (2015) Stability of a hydrodynamic discontinuity Physica Scripta. 90
Efrati E, Wang Z, Kolan A, et al. (2014) Real-space renormalization in statistical mechanics Reviews of Modern Physics. 86: 647-667
Kadanoff LP. (2013) Relating theories via renormalization Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 44: 22-39
Dai H, Geary Z, Kadanoff LP. (2009) Asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of Toeplitz matrices Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2009
Kadanoff LP. (2009) More is the same; phase transitions and mean field theories Journal of Statistical Physics. 137: 777-797
Benzi R, Biferale L, Fisher RT, et al. (2008) Intermittency and universality in fully developed inviscid and weakly compressible turbulent flows. Physical Review Letters. 100: 234503
Oikonomou P, Rushkin I, Gruzberg IA, et al. (2008) Global properties of stochastic Loewner evolution driven by Lévy processes Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2008
Rushkin I, Oikonomou P, Kadanoff LP, et al. (2006) Stochastic Loewner evolution driven by Lévy processes Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
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