Seth Putterman

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| birth_place = New York City, New York, USA

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| workplaces = University of California, Los Angeles

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| education = Cooper Union
California Institute of Technology
Rockefeller University

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| thesis_title = Towards a Macroscopic Theory of Superfluids

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| thesis_year = 1970

| doctoral_advisor = George Uhlenbeck

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| known_for = Sonoluminescence

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| website = {{URL|http://acoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu/}}

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Seth J. Putterman (born December 18, 1945) is an American physicist. He is known to have an eclectic approach to research topics that broadly revolves around energy-focusing phenomena in nonlinear, continuous systems, with particular interest in turbulence, sonoluminescence,{{Cite journal |last1=Putterman |first1=S. J. |last2=Weninger |first2=K. R. |date=2000-01-01 |title=Sonoluminescence: How Bubbles Turn Sound into Light |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445 |journal=Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=445–476 |doi=10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445 |bibcode=2000AnRFM..32..445P |issn=0066-4189|url-access=subscription }} sonofusion and pyrofusion.{{Cite journal |last1=Naranjo |first1=B. |last2=Gimzewski |first2=J.K. |last3=Putterman |first3=S. |date=2005-04-28 |title=Observation of nuclear fusion driven by a pyroelectric crystal |url=http://www.nature.com/articles/nature03575 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=434 |issue=7037 |pages=1115–1117 |doi=10.1038/nature03575 |pmid=15858570 |bibcode=2005Natur.434.1115N |s2cid=4407334 |issn=0028-0836|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Brumfiel |first=Geoff |date=2005-10-26 |title=Far from the frontier |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=437 |issue=7063 |pages=1224–1225 |doi=10.1038/4371224a |pmid=16251921 |s2cid=4303092 |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free }}

Education and career

Putterman studied physics at Cooper Union in New York for two years before transferring to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, graduating in 1966. In 1970, he received his doctorate under George Uhlenbeck at the Rockefeller University in New York. His PhD work dealt with quantum fluids and he contributed to the theory of superfluidity of helium.{{Cite journal |last=Putterman |first=Seth |year=1972 |title=The phenomenology of vortices in superfluid helium |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0370157372900063 |journal=Physics Reports |language=en |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=67–94 |doi=10.1016/0370-1573(72)90006-3|bibcode=1972PhR.....4...67P |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite book |last=Putterman |first=Seth J. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1095109 |title=Superfluid hydrodynamics |date=1974 |publisher=North-Holland Pub. Co. |isbn=0-444-10681-2 |location=Amsterdam |oclc=1095109}}

Putterman is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. His group demonstrated{{Cite journal |last1=Camara |first1=Carlos G. |last2=Escobar |first2=Juan V. |last3=Hird |first3=Jonathan R. |last4=Putterman |first4=Seth J. |date=2008-10-23 |title=Correlation between nanosecond X-ray flashes and stick–slip friction in peeling tape |url=http://www.nature.com/articles/nature07378 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=455 |issue=7216 |pages=1089–1092 |doi=10.1038/nature07378 |bibcode=2008Natur.455.1089C |s2cid=4372536 |issn=0028-0836|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Hird |first1=J. R. |last2=Camara |first2=C. G. |last3=Putterman |first3=S. J. |date=2011-03-28 |title=A triboelectric x-ray source |url=http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3570688 |journal=Applied Physics Letters |language=en |volume=98 |issue=13 |pages=133501 |doi=10.1063/1.3570688 |bibcode=2011ApPhL..98m3501H |issn=0003-6951|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Kneip |first=Stefan |date=2011-05-25 |title=A stroke of X-ray |url=http://www.nature.com/articles/473455a |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=473 |issue=7348 |pages=455–456 |doi=10.1038/473455a |pmid=21614067 |s2cid=205064684 |issn=0028-0836|url-access=subscription }} X-ray generation from the triboelectric effect by peeling a strip of Scotch tape in 2008.

Honors and awards

Putterman received the Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1972. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997){{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1997&unit_id=&institution=University+of+California%2C+Los+Angeles}} (search on year=1997 and institution=University of California, Los Angeles) and the Acoustical Society of America.