| LC control no. | n 88072441 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kadanoff, Leo P. |
| Birth date | 1937-01-14 |
| Death date | 2015-10-26 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Physics Phase transformations (Statistical physics) |
| Affiliation | University of Chicago Brown University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists College teachers |
| Found in | His Quantum statistical mechanics, 1988: CIP t.p. (Leo P. Kadanoff) From order to chaos II, c1999: t.p. (Leo P. Kadanoff; Univ. of Chicago) back cover (theoretical physicist; has done some research on sociology of urban areas; has developed teaching programs for undergraduates based on use of small computers; Ph. D., Harvard, 1960, physics; has worked at Bohr Inst. in Copenhagen, Univ. of Ill., Cambridge Univ., and Brown Univ.; has been at Univ. of Chicago since 1978) New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 2, 2015 (in obituary published Nov. 1: Leo P. Kadanoff; b. Leo Philip Kadanoff, Jan. 14, 1937, New York City; d. last Monday [Oct. 26, 2015], Chicago, aged 78; physicist who provided critical insights into the transformations of matter from one state to another) |
| Associated language | eng |
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