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Isadore Rudnick
Seth Putterman is professor of physics at the University of California, Los An- geles (UCLA). He received a BS from Caltech and a PhD from The Rockefell- er University under George Uhlenbeck. Putterman’s thesis on the macroscopic theory of superfluids was followed by
research in acoustics, nonlinear fluid mechanics, phenom- ena that spontaneously concentrate energy density, and in- termittency in fluorescence. Findings include kink solitons in water, picosecond sonoluminescence, X-ray emission from triboelectrification, and crystal-generated nuclear fusion. Putterman was named the UCLA 2010-2011 Fac- ulty Research Lecturer. Nature profiled his out-of-the- mainstream approach to science in the October 2005 issue (http://acoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu/).
References
All of the papers and demonstrations mentioned in the article are found in Maynard and Garrett (2011). Citations for the specific papers mentioned in the article can be found at http://acousticstoday.org/rudnick-references/.
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Garrett, S. L. (1990). Oral History: Isadore Rudnick. Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD. Available at http://acousticstoday.org/rudnick.
Garrett, S. L. (2017). Understanding Acoustics: An Experimentalist’s View of Sound and Vibration. Springer International Publishing, New York.
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Maynard, J. D., and Garrett, S. L. (2011). Collected Works of Distinguished Acousticians: Isadore Rudnick. Acoustical Society of America, Melville, NY. Available at http://acousticstoday.org/works/.
Putterman, S., and Garrett, S. (1999). Isadore Rudnick. Physics Today 52, 80-81.
Rudnick, I. (1976). Physical acoustics at UCLA in the study of superfluid helium. In Sette, D. (Ed.), New Directions in Physical Acoustics. Società Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, Italy.
Rudnick, I. (1980). Zero sound and the viscoelasticity of liquid 3He. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 40(3/4), 287-296.
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