Peter Hänggi
Peter Hänggi | |
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| Born | November 29, 1950 |
| Nationality | Swiss  |
| Alma mater | University of Basel, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Known for | Stochastic Resonance Hänggi's law |
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| Fields | Physics Statistical physics Dissipative systems |
| Institutions | University of Augsburg |
Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950) is a theoretical physicist from Switzerland. He is best known for his original works on Brownian motion and ratchets, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum mechanical).[1] Other topics include relativistic statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.
Notable review papers
Hänggi's Law
The following statement is attributed as Hänggi's Law:
The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.
It is labeled as a kind of Murphy's law and it was first seen in Arthur Bloch's work.[4] However, the attribute's relation to Professor Hänggi's research is not clear.
Corollaries:
- The more vital your research, the fewer people will understand it.
- You write a nontrivial paper and you likely will be the only one who will remember it.
References
- ^ "Curriculum VItae Peter Hänggi" (PDF). Universität Augsburg. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
- ^ Hänggi, Peter; Talkner, Peter; Borkovec, Michal (1990-04-01). "Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers". Reviews of Modern Physics. 62 (2): 251–341. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.62.251.
- ^ Gammaitoni, Luca; Hänggi, Peter; Jung, Peter; Marchesoni, Fabio (1998-01-01). "Stochastic resonance". Reviews of Modern Physics. 70 (1): 223–287. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.70.223.
- ^ Bloch, Arthur (2003). Murphy's Law. Penguin. ISBN 9780399529306.
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