Shang-keng Ma | |
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馬上庚 | |
Born | |
Died | November 24, 1983 | (aged 43)
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Thesis | Correlations of Photons from a Thermal Source (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Kenneth M. Watson |
Shang-keng Ma (September 24, 1940 – November 24, 1983) was a Chinese theoretical physicist, known for his work on the theory of critical phenomena and random systems.[2] He is known as the co-author with Bertrand Halperin and Pierre Hohenberg of a 1972 paper that "generalized the renormalization group theory to dynamical critical phenomena."[2] Ma is also known as the co-author with Yoseph Imry of a 1975 paper[2] and with Amnon Aharony and Imry of a 1976 paper that established the foundation of the random field Ising model (RFIM)[3]
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