Rudolph C. Hwa (born November 1, 1931) is an American theoretical physicist and Professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. His areas of interest include the strong interaction, nonlinear dynamics, fluctuations, and quark–gluon plasma. He was elected an American Physical Society Fellow in 1995.

Rudolph C. Hwa
Professor emeritus
华家照
Born
Hwa Chia-chao

(1931-11-01) November 1, 1931 (age 92)[1]
Other namesRudy Hwa
CitizenshipAmerican
Academic background
EducationB.S., M.S., Ph.D. in Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana
Ph.D., Physics, Brown University
ThesisStudy of pion-hyperon resonances by dispersion relations in the unphysical sheet
Doctoral advisorDavid Feldman

Early life and education

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Hwa Chia-chao was born in Shanghai, China, in 1931.[2][1] He arrived in the United States in 1949, and became a naturalized citizen in San Francisco in 1962.[1]

He completed three degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana: a B.S. in 1952, an M.S. in 1953, and a Ph.D. in 1957. Hwa earned his 1962 Ph.D. in physics at Brown University,[1] with a dissertation titled, Study of pion-hyperon resonances by dispersion relations in the unphysical sheet, advised by David Feldman.[3]

Career

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Between 1962 and 1966, Hwa held research positions at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His first faculty position was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at State University of New York at Stony Brook, and he joined the faculty of the University of Oregon in 1971.[4] He was named professor emeritus in 1997.[5][1]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Hwa, Rudolph C.; Teplitz, Vigdor L. (1966). Homology and Feynman integrals (The Mathematical physics monograph series). W. A. Benjamin. ASIN B0006BOKU4.[6]
  • Hwa, R.C. (1990). Quark-Gluon Plasma (Advanced Directions in High Energy Physics). World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. ISBN 978-9971509002.[7]
  • Hwa, Rudolph C. (1995). Quark-gluon plasma 2. Singapore; River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. ISBN 978-981-02-2399-1. OCLC 33079600.
  • Hwa, R. C.; Xin-Nian, Wang, eds. (2004). Quark-Gluon Plasma 3. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. ISBN 978-9812380777.
  • Hwa, R.C.; Wang, Xin-Niang, eds. (2010). Quark-gluon plasma 4. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. ISBN 978-9814293280.

Articles

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  • Das, K. P., & Hwa, R. C. (1977). Quark-antiquark recombination in the fragmentation region. Physics Letters B, 68(5), 459-462.
  • Hwa, R. C., & Yang, C. B. (2003). Scaling behavior at high p T and the p/π ratio. Physical Review C, 67(3), 034902.
  • Hwa, R. C. (1990). Fractal measures in multiparticle production. Physical Review D, 41(5), 1456.
  • Hwa, R. C., & Yang, C. B. (2004). Recombination of shower partons at high p T in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C, 70(2), 024905.
  • Hwa, R. C., & Kajantie, K. (1985). Diagnosing quark matter by measuring the total entropy and the photon or dilepton emission rates. Physical Review D, 32(5), 1109.
  • Hwa, R. C., & Ferree, T. C. (2002). Scaling properties of fluctuations in the human electroencephalogram. Physical Review E, 66(2), 021901.
  • Hwa, R. C. (1980). Clustering and hadronization of quarks: A treatment of the low-p T problem. Physical Review D, 22(7), 1593.

Awards and honors

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  • 1995 Fellow, American Physical Society, "For contributions to the study of soft hadronic processes in high energy collisions, signatures of quark gluon plasma, fractal structure in multiparticle production and phase transition."[8]
  • 2008 Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society[9]
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Faculty profile

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Hwa, Rudolph C. (May 2020). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of Oregon. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  2. ^ "Index to Naturalization Petitions, 1906-1991". www.ancestry.com. October 1, 1962. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  3. ^ "Physics Tree - Rudolph C Hwa". academictree.org. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  4. ^ "Rudolph Hwa | Department of Physics". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  5. ^ "Emeriti and Retired | Profile Categories | Department of Physics". physics.uoregon.edu. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  6. ^ Eden, R. J. (March 18, 1967). "Integrals and Symmetry (review of 2 books: Homology and Feynman Integrals by Rudolph C. Hwa and Vigdor L. Teplitz; Unitary Symmetries and their Application to High Energy Physics by M. Gourdin)". Nature. 213: 1073. doi:10.1038/2131073a0. S2CID 4175953.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ^ Bertsch, George F. (1991). "Review of Quark‐Gluon Plasma by Rudolph C. Hwa". Physics Today. 44 (3): 66–68. Bibcode:1991PhT....44c..66H. doi:10.1063/1.2810036.
  8. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  9. ^ "Physical Review Journals - Outstanding Referees". journals.aps.org. Retrieved December 28, 2021.