Stephen Bernard Libby
{{Short description|American physicist}}
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Stephen Bernard Libby is an American theoretical physicist and the Theory and Modeling Group Leader in the Physics Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1999&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellows 1999|publisher=American Physical Society|accessdate=December 29, 2019}} He is known for the application of quantum field theory to diverse systems including perturbative quantum chromodynamics and transport in the quantum Hall effect, as well as inventing computational algorithms for radiation driven kinetics in plasmas, and the invention of novel short wavelength laser applications.
Education and career
Libby received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1972, and his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1977 where he was a student of David Gross. He then became a postdoc at the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, and subsequently, worked as a Research Assistant Professor at Brown University. While at Brown, he worked on quantum chromodynamics and factorization theorems with George Sterman as well as quantum theory of Hall effect with Herbert Levin, Aad Pruisken, Robert B. Laughlin and others.[https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.32.1311 journals.aps.org] In 1986, Libby joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked in applied physics department, developing x-ray laser research. From 1992 to 1994, Libby served as Consulting Professor at Stanford University and then became a member of the National Research Council of its "Rare Isotope Science" Committee.{{cite web|publisher=Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory|url=https://pls.llnl.gov/people/staff-bios/physics/libby-s|title=Stephen Libby|accessdate=December 29, 2019}}
Honors
- Putnam Fellowship – Princeton University – 1972, 1973
- Fellow of the American Physical Society – 1999
- DOE Defense Programs Excellence Award – 2014
Published Books
- 2008: Edward Teller Centennial Symposium: Modern Physics and the Scientific Legacy of Edward Teller (co-editor), {{ISBN|978-9812837998}}, {{doi|10.1142/7154}}
- 2017: Advances in the Computational Sciences, Proceedings of the Symposium in Honor of Dr Berni Alder's 90th Birthday (co-editor), {{ISBN|978-9813209411}}, {{doi|10.1142/10432}}
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External links
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