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A. Brooks Harris

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A. Brooks Harris · Science & Medicine

What

Author of the Harris criterion for disordered systems; Onsager Prize (2007)

When

1935

Where

United States

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Biography

A. Brooks Harris is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Author of the Harris criterion for disordered systems; Onsager Prize (2007)

How & why

Arthur Brooks Harris is an American physicist at the University of Pennsylvania known for the Harris criterion, which determines when random disorder alters the critical behavior of a phase transition. For his contributions to the statistical physics of disordered systems he received the 2007 Lars Onsager Prize. He is identified as Jewish in Jewish biographical references.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize

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Author of the Harris criterion for disordered systems; Onsager Prize (2007)

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Lars Onsager Prize