Norman J. Zabusky

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American physicist academic physicist

Norman J. Zabusky was an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in computational fluid dynamics and the discovery of solitons in nonlinear wave equations.

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Label	Occurrences
Norman J. Zabusky canonical	3
Norman Zabusky	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American physicist ⓘ academic ⓘ physicist ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in physics ⓘ
awardReceived	James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics ⓘ
coAuthor	Martin David Kruskal ⓘ surface form: Martin D. Kruskal
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1929-01-04 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2018-01-31 ⓘ
educatedAt	City College of New York ⓘ University of Michigan ⓘ
employer	Bell Telephone Laboratories ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ Rutgers University ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish American ⓘ
fieldOfWork	computational fluid dynamics ⓘ nonlinear dynamics ⓘ physics ⓘ plasma physics ⓘ scientific visualization ⓘ
hasResearchInterest	computational physics ⓘ nonlinear wave equations ⓘ solitons ⓘ turbulence ⓘ vortex dynamics ⓘ
influenced	computational fluid dynamics community ⓘ development of soliton theory ⓘ
influencedBy	Enrico Fermi ⓘ John von Neumann ⓘ
knownFor	Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem studies ⓘ Korteweg–de Vries equation numerical experiments ⓘ coining the term soliton ⓘ discovery of solitons in nonlinear wave equations ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	American Physical Society ⓘ
notableStudent	Robert Krasny ⓘ
notableWork	Computer experiments on classical fluids ⓘ Interaction of solitons in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial states ⓘ
occupation	research scientist ⓘ university professor ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Brooklyn ⓘ New York City ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Boulder, Colorado ⓘ surface form: Boulder Colorado ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	New Jersey, United States ⓘ surface form: New Jersey Princeton ⓘ

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Fluid Dynamics Prize → hasRecipient → Norman J. Zabusky ⓘ

Martin David Kruskal → notableStudent → Norman J. Zabusky ⓘ

this entity surface form: Norman Zabusky

Interaction of solitons in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial states → author → Norman J. Zabusky ⓘ

Interaction of solitons in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial states → associatedWith → Norman J. Zabusky ⓘ