Joseph Edward Mayer
Joseph Edward Mayer (February 5, 1904, New York City – October 15, 1983) was a chemist who has formulated the Mayer expansion in statistical field theory.[1]
He was professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego from 1960 to 1973. He was married to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer from 1930 until her death in 1972. He went to work with James Franck in Göttingen, Germany in 1929, where he met Maria, a student of Max Born. Joseph Mayer was president of the American Physical Society from 1973 to 1975.
Scientific contributions
He developed the cluster expansion method and Mayer-McMillan solution theory.
References
- ^ Montroll, Elliott W.; Raveché, Harold J.; Devore, Jerald A. (April 1984). "Obituary: Joseph E. Mayer". Physics Today. 37 (4): 98–100. doi:10.1063/1.2916215.
External links
- Joseph Mayer Papers MSS 0047. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
- Joseph Edward Mayer obituary
- Biography of Joseph Edward Mayer, by Bruno H. Zimm
