Leo Kadanoff
Leo Kadanoff · Science & Medicine
Physicist; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
1937, New York City, United States — 2015, Chicago, Illinois, United States
United States
Leo Kadanoff is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
Kadanoff, an American theoretical physicist of Jewish background, introduced the 'block-spin' picture of scaling near phase transitions, a decisive step toward the renormalization group that explains why very different systems behave identically at critical points. Based at the University of Chicago, he later contributed to chaos theory and urban modeling. His scaling ideas reshaped condensed-matter physics.
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Physicist; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
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