Norman J. Zabusky

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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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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"

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