Asım Orhan Barut

Asım Orhan Barut
Born(1926-06-06)6 June 1926
Malatya, Turkey
Died5 December 1994(1994-12-05) (aged 68)
EducationEidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
Known forElectrodynamics and classical theory of particles and fields, quantum field theory, elementary particles and group theory, Barut–Girardello coherent states
Scientific career
FieldsHigh energy physics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity
Workplaces

Asım Orhan Barut (June 6, 1926 – December 5, 1994) was a Turkish-American theoretical physicist.

Education

He received both his undergraduate diploma and his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1949 and 1952, respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago during 1953–1954.

Academic life

Barut was an assistant professor at Reed College during 1954-55 and then joined the faculty at Syracuse University in 1956. He became a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1962 and served for 32 years.

Research areas

His research interests centered on group theoretic methods in physics. His books include Theory of the Scattering Matrix, Electrodynamics and Classical Theory of Fields and Particles and Representations of Noncompact Groups and Applications. Asım Orhan Barut was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1966.

Publications

Books

Editorships

Journal articles

A representative sample of key publications.

References

  1. 1 2 Barut, Asim O. was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1966
  2. ↑ "Barut's biography". Archived from the original on 2004-09-08. Retrieved 2006-06-20.
  3. ↑ Asım Orhan Barut Archived 2017-01-07 at the Wayback Machine by Marlan O. Scully, Foundations of Physics, Vol . 28, No. 3, 1998.
  4. ↑ Asım Barut: A Personal Tribute Archived 2017-01-07 at the Wayback Machine by Jonathan P. Dowling, Foundations of Physics, Vol . 28, No. 3, 1998.
  5. ↑ Hermann, Robert (1964). "Review: A. O. Barut, Electrodynamics and classical theory of fields and particles". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 70 (5): 658–660. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1964-11148-4.
  6. ↑ Hermann, Robert (1964). "Book Review: Electrodynamics and classical theory of fields and particles by A. O. Barut". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 70 (5): 658–661. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1964-11148-4. MR 1564187.
  7. ↑ Stuewer, Roger H. (1990). "Selected Scientific Papers of Alfred Landé edited by A. O. Barut, A. Van der Merwe". Philosophy of Science. 57 (2): 334–335. doi:10.1086/289553.