Berni Alder

Berni Julian Alder
Berni Julian Alder
Born	September 9, 1925; Duisburg, Prussia
Died	September 7, 2020 (aged 94)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California at Berkeley; California Institute of Technology;
Known for	Molecular dynamics simulation
Awards	Boltzmann Medal (2001); National Medal of Science (2009);
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistical mechanics
Institutions	University of California at Berkeley; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; University of California at Davis;
Thesis	The Radial Distribution Function and the Thermodynamic Properties of Monatomic Liquids (1952)
Doctoral advisor	John Gamble Kirkwood

Berni Julian Alder (September 9, 1925 – September 7, 2020) was a German-born American physicist specialized in statistical mechanics, and a pioneer of computational modelling of matter.

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