Leo P. Kadanoff (born 14 January 1937) is a professor of physics (emeritus as of 2004) at the University of Chicago and the current President of the American Physical Society (APS). He has contributed to the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condensed matter physics.
Kadanoff was raised in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree and doctorate in physics from Harvard University.
After a post-doctorate at the ...
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Leo P. Kadanoff (born 14 January 1937) is a professor of physics (emeritus as of 2004) at the University of Chicago and the current President of the American Physical Society (APS). He has contributed to the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condensed matter physics.
Kadanoff was raised in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree and doctorate in physics from Harvard University.
After a post-doctorate at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, he joined the physics faculty at the University of Illinois in 1965.
Kadanoff's early research focused upon superconductivity. In the late 1960s, he studied the organization of matter in phase transitions. Kadanoff demonstrated that sudden changes in material properties (such as the magnetization of a magnet or the boiling of a fluid) could be understood in terms of scaling and universality. With his collaborators, he showed how all the experimental data then available for the changes, called second order...
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