Physicist Passes

["Michael P. Grissom" <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Radsafers,

As we pass the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the electron,
the following obituary seems particularly relevant as it applies to a
scientist who did much to develop our knowledge of the behavior
of electrons in matter:

>San Jose Mercury News/4-12-97
>
>LUTTINGER, Dr. Joaquin M., 73,
>a solid-state physicist who put his mathematical imagination to
>work on the behavior of electrons, devising theories that have
>advanced the knowledge of semiconductors and superconductors;
>Sunday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City of cancer
>of the bone marrow.  Dr. Luttinger was a professor emeritus of
>physics at Columbia University and a member of the National
>Academy of Sciences.  Dr. Luttinger is best known for his work,
>begun in the 1960s, on what are called Luttinger liquids, theoretical
>models in which electrons are able to move in only one dimension
>instead of three.  The theory described the movement of electrons
>in extremely thin wires or on the edges of molecular structures,
>predicting that the behavior would be similar to that of a liquid.