Robert Zwanzig
Robert Zwanzig | |
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| Born | 9 April 1928 Brooklyn, New York City, United States |
| Died | May 15, 2014 (aged 86) Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
| Alma mater | Caltech |
| Known for | Zwanzig equation Zwanzig projection operator Nakajima–Zwanzig equation Mori–Zwanzig formalism |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | University of Maryland |
| Thesis | Quantum Hydrodynamics: a statistical mechanical theory of light scattering from simple non-polar fluids (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | John G. Kirkwood |
Robert Walter Zwanzig (9 April 1928 – May 15, 2014) was an American theoretical physicist and chemist who made important contributions to the statistical mechanics of irreversible processes, protein folding, and the theory of liquids and gases. He is known for the free-energy perturbation method, the Zwanzig projection operator, the Mori–Zwanzig formalism and Nakajima–Zwanzig equation.