H. Eugene Stanley

Infobox Scientist
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name = H. Eugene Stanley
birth_date = 1941
birth_place = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
residence = USA
citizenship = USA
awards = 2004 Boltzmann Medal
2008 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
Teresiana Medal
Distinguished Teaching Scholar Director's Award
Nicholson Medal
Memory Ride Award for Alzheimer Research
Massachusetts Professor of the Year
fields = Physics
workplaces = Boston University
MIT
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
alma_mater = Wesleyan University
doctoral_students = Albert-László Barabási
Sidney Redner
known_for = Econophysics
statistical physics
Alzheimer's
footnotes =

H. Eugene Stanley (born in Oklahoma City, 1941) is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current research focuses on understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water, but he had made fundamental contributions to complex systems, such as quantifying correlations among the constituents of the Alzheimer brain, and quantifying fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequences, interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased heart. He is one of the founding fathers of econophysics.

Education

Stanley obtained his B.A. in physics at Wesleyan University in 1962.

He performed biological physics research with Max Delbrueck in 1963 and was awarded a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1967.

Stanley was a Miller Fellow at University of California, Berkeley with Charles Kittel, where he wrote an Oxford monograph "Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena" which won theChoice Award for Outstanding Academic Book of 1971.

Academic career

Stanley was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT in 1969 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1971. We was appointed Hermann von Helmholtz Associate Professor in 1973, in recognition of his interdepartmental teaching and research with the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. In 1976, Stanley joined Boston University as Professor of Physics, and Associate Professor of Physiology (in the School of Medicine). In 1978 and 1979, he was promoted to Professor of Physiology and University Professor, respectively. Since 2007 he holds joint appointments with the Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering Departments.

Research and achievements

Stanley had fundamental contributions to several topics in statistical physics, such as the theory of phase transitions, percolation, disordered systems, aggregation phenomena, polymers, econophysics and biological physics. His early work introduced the n-vector model of magnetism and its exact solution in the limit n infinity, topics that are now part of standard statistical physics textbooks.

His seminal work on liquid water started with a percolation model he developed with Texeira to explain the experimentally observed anticorrelations in entropy and volume [H. E. Stanley and J. Teixeira, “Interpretation of The Unusual Behavior of H2Oand D2O at Low Temperatures: Tests of a Percolation Model” J. Chem. Phys.73, 3404–3422 (1980)] . In 1992 he developed the liquid-liquid critical point hypothesis, that offered a quantitative understanding of water’s anomalies, applying to all liquids with tethrahedral symmetry (like silicon, silica) [P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino, U. Essmann, and H. E. Stanley, “Phase Behavior ofMetastable Water” Nature 360, 324–328 (1992).] Direct experimental proof for his proposal was obtained by recent experiments in Tsukuba and MIT.

Stanley coined the term ‘econophysics’ in 1994 to denote the field of physics dealing with economic phenomenon. His group has found empirical laws governing economic fluctuations, and proposed statistical mechanics models to explain their origins. His publications have received 40,017 citations [33,412 to articles and 6605 to books] and his Hirsch index is h = 91. Two of his papers were reproduced in"The Physical Review, The First Hundred Years: A Selection ofSeminal Papers and Commentaries".

Stanley is committed to education at all levels, from high school tograduate studies. He has served as thesis advisor to 96 Ph. D. studentsand has collaborated with 102 postdoctoral fellows and visitingfaculty. He is also active in worldwide efforts for achieving genderbalance in the physical sciences.

Honors and Awards

Stanley has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2004), cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/84564532?pg=vprof&mbr=1005291&returl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fsite%2FDir%2F84564532%3Fpg%3Dsrch%26view%3Dbasic&retmk=search_again_link
title=Member Profile: Stanley, H. Eugene
publisher=National Academy of Sciences] the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He is an Honorary Member of theHungarian Physical Society and he is currentlyHonorary Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Pavia (Pavia, Italy), and at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary).

For his contributions to phase transitions Stanley received the2004 Boltzmann Medal, awarded by International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), and the American Physical Society 2008 Julius Edgar LilienfeldPrize.cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=H.%20Eugene%20Stanley&year=2008
title=2008 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Recipient — H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University
publisher=American Physical Society (APS)
date=2008 ]

He was awarded the Teresiana Medal in Complex Systems Researchgiven by the University of Pavia. He also received the DistinguishedTeaching Scholar Director's Award from the National ScienceFoundation, the Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach from the AmericanPhysical Society, a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979), cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.gf.org/sfellow.html
title=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation S Fellows Page
publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation] the David Turnbull Prize from the Materials Research Society (1998), cite web |accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=1797&DID=75742
title=Past David Turnbull Lecturers
publisher=Materials Research Society] cite web |accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/sec.asp?CID=1797&DID=68717
title=David Turnbull Lectureship
publisher=Materials Research Society] a BP Venture Research Award, the Floyd K. Richtmyer Memorial Lectureship Award (1997),cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.aapt.org/Grants/richtmyer.cfm
title=Richtmyer Memorial Award
publisher=American Association of Physics Teachers] the Memory Ride Award for Alzheimer Research,cite web
accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.memoryride.org/dev/grant.php
title=Memory Ride Grant for Multidisciplinary Research in Alzheimer's Disease
publisher=Memory Ride, Alzheimer's Association] and the Massachusetts Professor of the Yearawarded by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Stanley received five Doctorates Honoris Causa, from Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel), Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest). University of Liège (Belgium), University of Dortmund, and University of Wroclaw.

See also

* List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Applied physical sciences)

Notes

References

* cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://www.bu.edu/uni/faculty/profiles/stanley.html
title=Faculty — Profile — H. Eugene Stanley
publisher=University Professors Program, Boston University
date=September 11, 2006

*cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://physics.bu.edu/people/show/68
title=H. Eugene Stanley
publisher=Physics Department, Boston University

External links

*cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://polymer.bu.edu/hes/
title=Homepage for H. Eugene Stanley, University Professor, Center for Polymer Studies Director
publisher=Boston University

*cite web|accessdate=2008-05-26
url=http://polymer.bu.edu/
title=Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University

Persondata
NAME = Stanley, H. Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Stanley, Gene
SHORT DESCRIPTION = American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH = 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH =
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