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Melville Green

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Melville Green · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist (statistical mechanics, Green-Kubo relations)

When

1922, Jamaica, New York, United States — 1979, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Melville Green is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist (statistical mechanics, Green-Kubo relations)

How & why

Melville S. Green was an American statistical physicist known for the Green–Kubo relations, which express transport coefficients such as viscosity and thermal conductivity in terms of microscopic fluctuations, and for co-editing the influential 'Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena' series. He led the statistical physics section of the National Bureau of Standards and later taught at Temple University. He is included among Jewish physicists in Jewish biographical references.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist (statistical mechanics, Green-Kubo relations)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics