Joseph Edward Mayer
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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 1972, and previously at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the University of Chicago.[2] 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.
See also
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Further reading
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External links
- Joseph Mayer Papers MSS 0047. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
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