Barry Simon
Barry Martin Simon (born 16 April 1946) is an American mathematical physicist and was the IBM professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (particularly Schrödinger operators), including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. He has authored more than 400 publications on mathematics and physics.
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| Born | 16 April 1946 (age 77) New York City |
| Alma mater | AB, Harvard University PhD, Princeton University |
| Title | Professor |
| Spouse | Martha Simon |
| Awards | Henri Poincaré Prize (2012) Bolyai Prize (2015) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2016) Dannie Heineman Prize (2018) |
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| Institutions | Princeton University Caltech |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Wightman |
| Doctoral students | Percy Deift Alexander Kiselev Antti Kupiainen |
His work has focused on broad areas of mathematical physics and analysis covering: quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, Brownian motion, random matrix theory, general nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (including N-body systems and resonances), nonrelativistic quantum mechanics in electric and magnetic fields, the semi-classical limit, the singular continuous spectrum, random and ergodic Schrödinger operators, orthogonal polynomials, and non-selfadjoint spectral theory.