Robert Zwanzig | |
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| Born | 9 April 1928 Brooklyn, New York City, United States |
| Died | May 15, 2014 Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
| Alma mater | Caltech |
| Known for | Zwanzig equation Zwanzig projection operator Nakajima–Zwanzig equation Mori–Zwanzig formalism |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | University of Maryland |
| Thesis | Quantum Hydrodynamics: a statistical mechanical theory of light scattering from simple non-polar fluids (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | John G. Kirkwood |
Robert Walter Zwanzig (9 April 1928[1] – May 15, 2014[2]) was an American theoretical physicist and chemist who made important contributions to the statistical mechanics of irreversible processes, protein folding, and the theory of liquids and gases.