Martin Kruskal
Martin Kruskal · Science & Medicine
Discovered solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries equation
1925, New York City, United States — 2006, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
United States
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Kruskal was a mathematical physicist who, with Norman Zabusky, discovered the soliton—a stable solitary wave—in the Korteweg–de Vries equation, and helped develop the inverse scattering transform, transforming nonlinear science. He was born into a Jewish family in New York City; his mother, Lillian Kruskal Oppenheimer, pioneered origami education in the US. He taught at Princeton and Rutgers.
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Discovered solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries equation
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