H. Eugene Stanley

Harry Eugene Stanley
BornMarch 28, 1941 (1941-03-28) (age 83)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
CitizenshipUSA
Alma materWesleyan University (B.A., 1962)
Harvard University (Ph.D., 1967)
Known forEconophysics
Statistical physics
Complex networks
AwardsChoice Award for Outstanding Academic Book (1971)

Floyd K. Richtmyer Prize (1997)
David Turnbull Prize (1998)
Distinguished Teacher–Scholar Prize (2001)
Memory Ride Prize for Alzheimer Research (2001)
Dwight Nicholson Medal (2003)[1]
Teresiana Medal (2004)
Boltzmann Medal (2004)[2]
Zenith Fellow Award of the Alzheimer Association (2005)
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2008)[3]
Senior Award, European Complex Systems Society (2014)

Massachusetts Professor of the Year
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical physics
InstitutionsBoston University
MIT
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
ThesisCritical phenomena in Heisenberg models of magnetism (1967)
Doctoral advisorT. A. Kaplan
J. H. Van Vleck
Doctoral studentsAlbert-László Barabási
Alex Hankey
Sharon Glotzer
Judith Herzfeld
Sidney Redner
Luis Amaral
Nikolay Dokholyan

Harry Eugene Stanley (born March 28, 1941) is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current research focuses on understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water, but he had made fundamental contributions to complex systems, such as quantifying correlations among the constituents of the Alzheimer brain, and quantifying fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequences, interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased heart. He is one of the founding fathers of econophysics.

  1. ^ "2003 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  2. ^ "BU physicist receives Boltzmann Award for outstanding work in statistical physics". the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  3. ^ "2008 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 27 April 2019.