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4 unusual facts about Elliott Waters Montroll


Elliott Waters Montroll

M. F. Shlesinger and G. H. Weiss, Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916 – December 3, 1983), in The Wonderful World of Stochastics (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985), 1–16.

Montroll had an exceptionally varied career: was a Sterling Research Fellow at Yale University where his work on the Ising model of a ferromagnet led him to solve certain Markov chain problems.

M. F. Shlesinger and B. J. West, Elliott W. Montroll (1916–1983): in memoriam, in Random Walks and Their Applications in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1982 (Amer. Inst. Phys., New York, 1 984), vi–viii.

Michael F. Shlesinger

In 1975, he obtained his PhD from the University of Rochester under Elliott Waters Montroll for a thesis entitled A Stochastic Theory of Anomalous Transient Photocurrents - in Certain Xerographic Films and of the 1/f Noise in Neural Membrane.



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