László Tisza

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name = László Tisza
birth_date = birth date and age|1907|7|7
birth_place = Budapest, Hungary
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occupation = Physicist and professor

László Tisza (born July 7, 1907) is Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. He was a colleague of famed physicists Edward Teller, Lev Landau and Fritz London, and initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium.

In 1941, Tisza emigrated to the United States and joined the faculty at MIT. His research areas included theoretical physics and the history and philosophy of science, specifically on the foundation of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. He taught at MIT until 1973.

Tisza is the author of the 1966 book, "Generalized Thermodynamics". He is a Fellow of The American Physical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris in Sorbonne.

The 1982 publication "Physics as Natural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of László Tisza" was written by Tisza's colleagues and former students in honor of his seventy-fifth birthday.

External links

* [http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/laszlo_tisza.html Faculty & Staff Listing at MIT]