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Science & Medicine

E. G. D. Cohen

Who

E. G. D. Cohen · Science & Medicine

What

Theorist of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; Boltzmann Medal (2004)

When

1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands — 2017, New York, United States

Where

Netherlands · United States

Biography

E. G. D. Cohen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Theorist of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; Boltzmann Medal (2004)

How & why

Cohen, a Dutch Jewish physicist who survived the Nazi occupation in hiding, became a leading theorist of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, notably co-formulating the fluctuation theorem for systems driven far from equilibrium. He spent his career at Rockefeller University and received the 2004 Boltzmann Medal.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Boltzmann Medal

Contributions & Sources

Theorist of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; Boltzmann Medal (2004)

2004

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Boltzmann Medal