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Michael John Creutz (born November 24, 1944) is an American theoretical physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory specializing in lattice gauge theory and computational physics.
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Background
Creutz was born in 1944 in Los Alamos, New Mexico.[1] His father, Edward Creutz, was also a physicist and was working on the Manhattan Project to help build the atomic bomb at the time of Michael's birth.[2][3]
Creutz graduated with honor with a bachelor's degree in physics from Caltech in 1966. He did his graduate work at Stanford University under a NSF Graduate Fellowship, graduating in 1970. His thesis was done at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and his adviser was the noted physicist Sidney Drell.
After his graduation he served shortly as a research associate at SLAC before moving to the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a fellow from 1970-1972. In 1972 he joined the High Energy Theory Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, becoming a Senior Physicist in 1985 and serving as Group leader from 1984 to 1987. In 2003 he became an associate professor at the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at nearby Stony Brook University.[1]
Research
Creutz's research spans a wide variety of topics in particle physics and mathematical physics, but he is best known for his work on lattice QCD.[4] His 1983 textbook Quarks, Gluons, and Lattices was the first full-length textbook on lattice QCD and is considered a classic in the field.
Creutz is a fellow of the American Physical Society and was the 2000 recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics "for first demonstrating that properties of QCD could be computed numerically on the lattice through Monte Carlo methods, and for numerous contributions to the field thereafter."[5] In 2009 he received a Humboldt Research Award.
Books
- Quarks, Gluons, and Lattices, M. Creutz (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983).
- Lattice Higgs Workshop, B. Berg, G. Bhanot, M. Burbank, M. Creutz, J. Owens, Eds. (World Scientific, 1988).
- Quantum Fields on the Computer, M. Creutz, ed., (World Scientific, 1992).
References
- ^ a b "Michael Creutz: Resume". http://latticeguy.net/resume.html. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ Gonzalez, Blanca (July 13, 2009). "Obituary: Edward Creutz; worked on Manhattan Project". Sign On San Diego. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/jul/13/1m13creutz231926-edward-creutz-worked-manhattan-pr/?uniontrib.
- ^ "Ed Creutz: 1/23/1913 -- 6/27/2009". http://www.latticeguy.net/Ed_Creutz/. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "Michael Creutz : Publications". http://www.latticeguy.net/mypubs/pubs.html. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "2000 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics Recipient". APS. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Michael%20John%20Creutz&year=2000. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
External links
- latticeguy.net - personal website
- Creutz's BNL website
- Papers on SPIRES
- arXiv.org preprints
Categories:- Living people
- 1944 births
- American theoretical physicists
- Particle physicists
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- State University of New York at Stony Brook faculty
- Brookhaven National Laboratory staff
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