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unusual facts about Statistical mechanics


Allosteric enzyme

Allosteric enzymes are enzymes that change their conformational ensemble upon binding of an effector, which results in an apparent change in binding affinity at a different ligand binding site.


Entropy and life

Similarly, according to the chemist John Avery, from his recent 2003 book Information Theory and Evolution, we find a presentation in which the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution, as well as human cultural evolution, has its basis in the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory.

Gavin E. Crooks

He researches in the field of Statistical mechanics, and discovered the Crooks Equation leading to the Crooks fluctuation theorem.

Ornstein–Zernike equation

In statistical mechanics the Ornstein–Zernike equation (named after Leonard Ornstein and Frits Zernike) is an integral equation for defining the direct correlation function.

Pierre Hohenberg

Pierre C. Hohenberg (born 3 October 1934 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French-American theoretical physicist, who works primarily on statistical mechanics.

Saha ionization equation

In the early twenties Ralph H. Fowler (in collaboration with Charles Galton Darwin) developed a very powerful method in statistical mechanics permitting a systematic exposition and working out of the equilibrium properties of matter.


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Alexander Zamolodchikov

1999 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Barry M. McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu for "their groundbreaking and penetrating work on classical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories."

Constantino Tsallis

#That a longstanding quasi-stationary state (QSS) was expected in LONG-range interacting Hamiltonian systems (one of the core problems of statistical mechanics).

E.G.D. Cohen

In 2004 Cohen received the triannual Boltzmann Medal from the Committee on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, its highest award for contributions to statistical mechanics.

Harold Grad

In statistical mechanics he had developed in his thesis new methods for the solution of the Boltzmann equation.

Ising

Ising model, mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the International School for Advanced Studies and IOP Publishing.

Self-consistent mean field

Mean field theory, an approach to the many-body problem in physics and statistical mechanics

Zahradnik

Miloš Zahradník, Czech mathematician who works on statistical mechanics in Charles University in Prague