Seth Putterman

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Seth J. Putterman
Born (1945-12-18) December 18, 1945 (age 79)
New York City, New York, USA
NationalityAmerican
Education Cooper Union
California Institute of Technology
Rockefeller University
Known for Sonoluminescence
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Towards a Macroscopic Theory of Superfluids  (1970)
Doctoral advisor George Uhlenbeck
Website acoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu

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, [1] sonofusion and pyrofusion. [2] [3]

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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. [4] [5]

Putterman is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. His group demonstrated [6] [7] [8] 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) [9] and the Acoustical Society of America.

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References

  1. ↑ Putterman, S. J.; Weninger, K. R. (2000-01-01). "Sonoluminescence: How Bubbles Turn Sound into Light" . Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 32 (1): 445–476. Bibcode:2000AnRFM..32..445P. doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445. ISSN   0066-4189.
  2. ↑ Naranjo, B.; Gimzewski, J.K.; Putterman, S. (2005-04-28). "Observation of nuclear fusion driven by a pyroelectric crystal" . Nature. 434 (7037): 1115–1117. Bibcode:2005Natur.434.1115N. doi:10.1038/nature03575. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   15858570. S2CID   4407334.
  3. ↑ Brumfiel, Geoff (2005-10-26). "Far from the frontier". Nature. 437 (7063): 1224–1225. doi: 10.1038/4371224a . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   16251921. S2CID   4303092.
  4. ↑ Putterman, Seth (1972). "The phenomenology of vortices in superfluid helium" . Physics Reports. 4 (2): 67–94. Bibcode:1972PhR.....4...67P. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(72)90006-3.
  5. ↑ Putterman, Seth J. (1974). Superfluid hydrodynamics. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co. ISBN   0-444-10681-2. OCLC   1095109.
  6. ↑ Camara, Carlos G.; Escobar, Juan V.; Hird, Jonathan R.; Putterman, Seth J. (2008-10-23). "Correlation between nanosecond X-ray flashes and stick–slip friction in peeling tape" . Nature. 455 (7216): 1089–1092. Bibcode:2008Natur.455.1089C. doi:10.1038/nature07378. ISSN   0028-0836. S2CID   4372536.
  7. ↑ Hird, J. R.; Camara, C. G.; Putterman, S. J. (2011-03-28). "A triboelectric x-ray source" . Applied Physics Letters. 98 (13): 133501. Bibcode:2011ApPhL..98m3501H. doi:10.1063/1.3570688. ISSN   0003-6951.
  8. ↑ Kneip, Stefan (2011-05-25). "A stroke of X-ray" . Nature. 473 (7348): 455–456. doi:10.1038/473455a. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   21614067. S2CID   205064684.
  9. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1997 and institution=University of California, Los Angeles)
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