Kevin Knuth
{{Short description|American astrophysicist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Kevin Hunter Knuth
| birth_date = {{birth_year_and_age|1965}}
| birth_place = Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, US{{Cite journal |last=Knuth |first=Kevin H. |date=2005 |title=Lattice duality: The origin of probability and entropy |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0925231205001165 |journal=Neurocomputing |language=en |volume=67 |pages=245–274 |doi=10.1016/j.neucom.2004.11.039|hdl=2060/20040081076 |hdl-access=free }}
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| field = Physics
| website = {{url|https://www.knuthlab.org/}}
| work_institutions = CUNY Graduate Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
NASA Ames Research Center
SUNY Albany
| alma_mater =
| education = University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Montana State University
University of Minnesota
| doctoral_advisor = John H. Broadhurst{{Cite web |last=Knuth |first=Kevin H. |title=Dynamics of the human auditory cortex in response to periodic auditory stimulation - ProQuest |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/249a09d5ca5fe4e400290f149a0a8201/1?cbl=18750 |website=www.proquest.com |language=en}}
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| thesis_title = Dynamics of the human auditory cortex in response to periodic auditory stimulation
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/openview/249a09d5ca5fe4e400290f149a0a8201/1?cbl=18750
| thesis_year = 1995
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Kevin Hunter Knuth (born 1965) is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany (SUNY). Knuth conducts research in information physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, and Bayesian analysis with applications towards various problems in physics. He also conducts research into UFOs.{{cite news |last1=David |first1=Leonard |title=How big a deal is NASA's new UFO study? |url=https://www.space.com/nasa-study-ufo-research-impact |access-date=5 August 2022 |work=Space.com |date=18 July 2022 |language=en}}
Education
Knuth was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He received a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1988, a Master of Science in physics from Montana State University in 1990, and a PhD in physics (with a minor in mathematics) from the University of Minnesota (1995), where he was supervised by John H. Broadhurst.
Academic career
After receiving his doctorate, Knuth taught in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences of the Graduate Center, CUNY, the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics of the Cornell University Medical Center from 1997 to 2000.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} He also worked as a researcher at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research from 1999 to 2001 and at NASA's Ames Research Center from 2001 to 2005.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} He became an assistant professor of physics at the University at Albany in 2005, was promoted to associate professor in 2009 and to professor in 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.albany.edu/physics/faculty/kevin-knuth|title=Kevin Knuth|work=Physics faculty|publisher=University at Albany|access-date=2024-03-22}}
He has been editor-in-chief of the MDPI journal Entropy{{Cite web |title=Editorial Board|publisher=MDPI |url=https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/editors |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=Entropy |language=en}} since 2012.
UFO research
Knuth has been quoted in the media on the topic of UFOs.{{Cite web |last=David |first=Leonard |date=2022-01-21 |title=2022 could be a turning point in the study of UFOs |url=https://www.space.com/2022-turning-point-study-ufos-uap |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=Space.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Jacobson |first=Linda |date=2021-06-09 |title=The truth about UFOs is out there, and US students are trying to find it |url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jun/09/ufo-science-classes-us-students |access-date=2022-07-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en}}{{cite news|url=https://www.tpr.org/science-technology/2021-06-18/physicist-takes-a-serious-look-at-unidentified-aerial-phenomena|title= Physicist Takes A Serious Look At Unidentified Aerial Phenomena |publisher=Texas Public Radio|last=Clayton|first=Jerry|date=2021-06-19|access-date=2022-08-10}}{{cite news |last1=Will |first1=Markus |title=Zahlen, bitte! 3 Prozent unerklärliche UFO-Beobachtungen |url=https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Zahlen-bitte-3-unerklaerliche-UFO-Beobachtungen-7101849.html |access-date=3 November 2022 |work=heise online |language=de}}{{cite news |title=This Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-silicon-valley-startup-is-dedicated-to-detecting-ufos-off-the-california-cost/ |access-date=3 November 2022 |work=Vice |language=en}} He serves as vice president of UAPx, a nonprofit organization that aims to conduct field research about UFOs, sometimes referred to as UAP,{{Cite web |last=Grossman |first=David |date=2019-10-30 |title=Ex-Military, NASA Veterans Form UFO Research Group |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a29628228/military-nasa-veterans-form-ufo-group/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=Popular Mechanics |language=en-US}} and is a research affiliate of The Galileo Project for the systematic scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts at Harvard University.{{cite web |title=Research Affiliates |url=https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/organization/affiliates |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=The Galileo Project |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{google scholar id|cluDFKcAAAAJ}}
- {{Official webpage|http://www.knuthlab.org/}} Knuth Information Physics Lab
- [https://www.uapexpedition.org/ UAPx] Nonprofit UAP research organization
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Category:Theoretical physicists
Category:American astrophysicists
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Category:American biophysicists