Benjamin Widom
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American theoretical chemist
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Benjamin Widom's Degrees
- PhD Chemistry University of Chicago
- Bachelors Chemistry University of Chicago
Why Is Benjamin Widom Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Widom is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. His research interests include physical chemistry and statistical mechanics. In 1998, Widom was awarded the Boltzmann Medal "for his illuminating studies of the statistical mechanics of fluids and fluid mixtures and their interfacial properties, especially his clear and general formulation of scaling hypotheses for the equation of state and surface tensions of fluids near critical points."
Benjamin Widom's Published Works
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Published Works
- Molecular theory of capillarity (1982) (3299)
- Some Topics in the Theory of Fluids (1963) (2201)
- Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves (2003) (1372)
- Equation of State in the Neighborhood of the Critical Point (1965) (937)
- Surface Tension and Molecular Correlations near the Critical Point (1965) (577)
- New Model for the Study of Liquid–Vapor Phase Transitions (1970) (576)
- Random Sequential Addition of Hard Spheres to a Volume (1966) (512)
- The hydrophobic effect (2003) (468)
- Potential-distribution theory and the statistical mechanics of fluids (1982) (356)
- Structure and Free Energy of the Interface between Fluid Phases in Equilibrium near the Critical Point (1969) (313)
- A rigid sphere model for the melting of argon (2002) (262)
- Degree of the Critical Isotherm (1964) (218)
- Intermolecular Forces and the Nature of the Liquid State: Liquids reflect in their bulk properties the attractions and repulsions of their constituent molecules. (1967) (177)
- Lattice model of microemulsions (1986) (165)
- LINE TENSION AND THE SHAPE OF A SESSILE DROP (1995) (148)
- Biochemistry at 100�C: Explosive Secretory Discharge of Bombardier Beetles (Brachinus) (1969) (143)
- A model microemulsion (1984) (119)
- Structure of interfaces from uniformity of the chemical potential (1978) (117)
- Liquid Surface Tension near the Triple Point (1970) (111)
- Stochastic models of the interconversion of three or more chemical species (1974) (96)
- Molecular Transitions and Chemical Reaction Rates: The stochastic model relates the rate of a chemical reaction to the underlying transition probabilities. (1965) (92)
- Scaling laws (2009) (91)
- Reaction Kinetics in Stochastic Models (1971) (89)
- Phase transitions and critical points in a model three-component system (1968) (87)
- Equilibrium of three liquid phases and approach to the tricritical point in benzene-ethanol-water-ammonium sulfate mixtures (1975) (79)
- Structure of the αγ interface (1978) (77)
- Statistical Mechanics: A Concise Introduction for Chemists (2002) (76)
- Plait Points in Two‐ and Three‐Component Liquid Mixtures (1967) (70)
- Repton model of gel electrophoresis and diffusion (1991) (69)
- Surface tension, line tension, and wetting (1992) (64)
- Rotational Relaxation of Rough Spheres (1960) (63)
- Role of surface forces in heterogeneous nucleation on wettable nuclei (1996) (55)
- Thickness of the Liquid-Vapor Wetting Layer (1982) (54)
- The critical point and scaling theory (1974) (54)
- Phase diagram of a lattice microemulsion model (1988) (53)
- A Simplified “Ratchet” Model of Molecular Motors (1998) (52)
- Tricritical points in three- and four-component fluid mixtures (1973) (48)
- Noncritical interface near a critical end point (1977) (48)
- Book Review:The Critical Point. A Historical Introduction to the Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena. Cyril Domb, Taylor and Francis, London, 1996 (1998) (48)
- Deviations from Thermal Equilibrium among Reactant Molecules (1961) (48)
- Random sequential filling of intervals on a line (1973) (47)
- Energy Exchange in Molecular Collisions (1953) (46)
- Phase transition in surfactant solutions and in their interfaces (1987) (46)
- Multicomponent-Fluid Tricritical Points (1973) (45)
- Interfacial tensions of three fluid phases in equilibrium (1975) (44)
- Structure and tension of the interface between dilute polymer solutions (1989) (43)
- Lattice-gas model of amphiphiles and of their orientation at interfaces (1984) (41)
- Phase Equilibrium and Critical Behavior in a Two‐Component Bethe‐Lattice Gas or Three‐Component Bethe‐Lattice Solution (1970) (40)
- Young's law with gravity (1995) (38)
- What do we know that van der Waals did not know (1999) (36)
- Phase separation in polymer solutions (1993) (35)
- Model of the hydrophobic interaction (1999) (34)
- Critical Isotherm and the Equation of State of Liquid‐Vapor Systems (1955) (34)
- Theory of Phase Equilibrium (1996) (33)
- Line tension at the wetting transition (1990) (33)
- Interfacial tensions in a system of three liquid phases (1976) (32)
- Mean‐First‐Passage Times and the Collision Theory of Bimolecular Reactions (1959) (30)
- Interfacial tensions of phase‐separated polymer solutions (1992) (28)
- Noncritical interface near a critical end point II (1980) (27)
- On the Radial Distribution Function in Fluids (1964) (26)
- Antonoff's Rule and the Structure of Interfaces near Tricritical Points (1975) (26)
- The line of contact of three fluid phases (1982) (25)
- Correlation and scattering functions in a lattice model of oil–water–amphiphile solutions (1989) (25)
- One‐Dimensional Inelastic Collisions with Impulsive Interactions (1959) (24)
- Critical-point thermodynamics of fluids without hole-particle symmetry (1973) (24)
- Surface tension of a two‐component liquid mixture near its critical solution point (1982) (24)
- Generalized solvation heat capacities. (2006) (23)
- Note on the interfacial tension of phase-separated polymer solutions (1988) (23)
- Inelastic Molecular Collisions with a Maxwellian Interaction Energy (1957) (23)
- Remarks on the Gibbs adsorption equation and the van der Waals, Cahn-Hilliard theory of interfaces (1979) (22)
- Some aspects of the theory of vibrational transition probabilities in molecular collisions (1962) (21)
- Model for line tension in three-phase equilibrium (1991) (21)
- Liquid-vapor surface tension near the liquid-liquid consolute point (1980) (19)
- Thermodynamic functions as correlation-function integrals. (2013) (19)
- Geometrical Aspects of the Penetrable‐Sphere Model (1971) (18)
- Geometric view of the thermodynamics of adsorption at a line of three-phase contact. (2004) (18)
- Relaxation of the String Oscillator (1958) (17)
- Correlation between hydrophobic attraction and the free energy of hydrophobic hydration (2002) (16)
- Structure and tension of the boundary between surface phases (1993) (16)
- Infinite-order transitions in density-functional models of wetting. (2010) (15)
- Line and boundary tensions on approach to the wetting transition. (2007) (15)
- Relation between the Compressibility and the Coexistence Curve near the Critical Point (1962) (15)
- Centenary Lecture. Phase equilibrium and interfacial structure (1985) (15)
- Densities of binary liquid mixtures near their consolute points (1980) (14)
- Second osmotic virial coefficient from the two-component van der Waals equation of state. (2012) (14)
- Three-phase equilibrium in solutions of polystyrene homologues in cyclohexane (1988) (14)
- Hamiltonian and phenomenological models of microemulsions (1986) (13)
- Contact angles in sequential wetting: pentane on water (2001) (13)
- Field-induced phase separation in one dimension (1984) (12)
- Mean-field density-functional model of a second-order wetting transition. (2008) (12)
- Structure and Thermodynamics of Interfaces (1977) (12)
- Fluctuations in the structure of interfaces (1997) (12)
- An exactly solvable model for depletion phenomena (2000) (12)
- Some theoretical aspects of critical phenomena in fluids (1986) (12)
- Virial Expansions for a Binary Mixture Model and for a Related One‐Component Model (1972) (11)
- Collision Theory of Chemical Reaction Rates (2007) (11)
- Effect of solutes on the structure and energetics of a model solvent (2007) (11)
- Theories of Liquids (1969) (11)
- Boundary tension: From wetting transition to prewetting critical point (1995) (11)
- Interfacial phase transitions of microemulsions (1986) (11)
- van der Waals model for the surface tension of liquid /sup 4/He near the lambda point (1983) (11)
- Scaling of the surface tension of phase-separated polymer solutions (1988) (10)
- Models of adsorption at a line of three-phase contact. (2004) (10)
- Nonideal gas solvation thermodynamics. (2007) (10)
- Deriving Second Osmotic Virial Coefficients from Equations of State and from Experiment. (2015) (10)
- Phase equilibria in a model microemulsion (1986) (10)
- Unified approach to prewetting and wetting phase transitions (2000) (9)
- Twenty lectures on thermodynamics (1976) (9)
- Structure of the interface between fluid phases (1981) (9)
- Structure and tension of interfaces (1999) (8)
- Note on the energy density in the solvent induced by a solute (2006) (8)
- Critical Solution Phenomenon in Two‐Component Liquid Systems. The System Water‐Ethylene Glycol Mono‐Isobutyl Ether (1960) (8)
- Osmotic Second Virial Coefficients of Aqueous Solutions from Two-Component Equations of State. (2016) (8)
- Molecular correlations and solvation in simple fluids. (2010) (8)
- Path dependence of surface–tension scaling in binary mixtures (1999) (7)
- Symmetry effects and equivalences in lattice models of hydrophobic interaction (2000) (7)
- The Virial Series of the Ideal Bose-Einstein Gas (1954) (7)
- Fluctuations in the structure of three-phase lines (1998) (7)
- AN INVARIANCE PROPERTY OF THE REPTON MODEL (1996) (7)
- Molecular aggregation equilibria. Comparison of finite lattice and weighted random mixing predictions. (2014) (6)
- Statistical Mechanics of Liquid‐Vapor Equilibrium (1957) (6)
- Biochemistry at 100{degrees}C: Explosive Secretory Discharge of Bombardier Beetles (Brachinus). (1969) (6)
- Interfacial tensions on approach to a tricritical point (1987) (6)
- II. Theoretical Modeling: An Introduction (1996) (6)
- Models of the Hydrophobic Attraction (2001) (5)
- Critical points in less than two dimensions (1973) (5)
- Laboring in the vineyard of physical chemistry. (2011) (5)
- The hydrophobic heat-capacity anomaly (2001) (5)
- Mechanism of the hydrogen-iodine reaction (1974) (5)
- New views of the Gibbs adsorption equation (2006) (5)
- Line tension on approach to a wetting transition (2005) (5)
- Diffusion and drift of charged polymers (1997) (4)
- Note on the calculation of the second osmotic virial coefficient in stable and metastable liquid states. (2013) (4)
- Finite lattice model for molecular aggregation equilibria. Boolean statistics, analytical approximations, and the macroscopic limit. (2015) (4)
- Inequalities Satisfied by the Radial Distribution Function (1965) (4)
- Test of the stability of a three-phase contact line with negative line tension (1999) (4)
- Density functional models of the interfacial tensions near the critical endpoints and tricritical point of three-phase equilibria (2016) (4)
- Statistical Mechanics: Contents (2002) (4)
- The Thermodynamics of the Helium Film (1953) (4)
- Multi-particle interaction in a model of the hydrophobic interaction (2001) (4)
- Note on the interfacial tension of polymer solutions in the large‐N limit (1989) (4)
- Surface tension variation in multiphase fluid systems (1983) (3)
- How much does the core structure of a three-phase contact line contribute to the line tension near a wetting transition? (2011) (3)
- On the Energy Dependence of Inelastic Molecular Collision Probabilities (1955) (2)
- Electrophoresis of Charged polymers: Simulation and Scaling in the Repton Model (1994) (2)
- Publisher's Note: "Decay of correlations in linear systems" [J. Chem. Phys. 50, 3756 (1969)]. (2015) (2)
- Line tension at Wetting and Prewetting Transitions (1993) (2)
- Reply to ‘‘Comments on Ising‐type models for microemulsions and micellar solutions’’ (1987) (2)
- Long tail correlations between hydrophobic solutes in a model solvent (2008) (2)
- Wetting transitions of continuously varying or infinite order from a mean-field density-functional theory (2011) (2)
- Statistical Mechanics: The Boltzmann distribution law and statistical thermodynamics (2002) (2)
- Collision Theory of the Kinetics of Dissociation of Diatomic Molecules (1959) (2)
- Statistical Mechanics by B. Widom (2002) (1)
- Conference summary and conclusions (1990) (1)
- Model lamellar-lamellar phase equilibria (1993) (1)
- DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODIC ORDER IN DISORDERED SURFACTANT-SOLUTION PHASES (1995) (1)
- Characteristic Exponent for the Radial Wave Equation with a Maxwellian Potential (1958) (1)
- Preface to the Sir John S. Rowlinson Festschrift (2010) (1)
- Imprisoned argentine scientist. (1977) (1)
- On the Structure of the Configuration Integral in the Statistical Mechanics of Pure Fluids (1955) (1)
- Publisher’s note: “Molecular correlations and solvation in simple fluids” [J. Chem. Phys.132, 214506 (2010)] (2010) (1)
- Proceedings of Faraday Symposium 20 On Phase-transitions In Adsorbed Layers - General Discussion (1986) (1)
- Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics. Henry Eyring, Douglas Henderson, Betsy Jones Stover, and Edward M. Eyring. Wiley, New York, 1964. xiv + 508 pp. Illus. $14.95 (1964) (1)
- First- and second-order wetting transitions at liquid-vapor interfaces. (2010) (1)
- INVITED ARTICLE Wetting transitions of continuously varying or infinite order from a mean-field density-functional theoryy (2011) (0)
- Final Report on Contract AF18(603)-111. (1962) (0)
- Concrete, Pictorial Discussion: Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics . Henry Eyring, Douglas Henderson, Betsy Jones Stover, and Edward M. Eyring. Wiley, New York, 1964. xiv + 508 pp. Illus. $14.95. (1964) (0)
- A Conversation with Robert Hughes – Interview by Ben Widom (2011) (0)
- Behavior of the line tension of a model three-phase fluid system approaching a wetting transition (2004) (0)
- Line tension and wetting (1991) (0)
- A Conversation with Roald Hoffmann (2006) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics: The liquid state (2002) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics of Interfaces (1988) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics: Preface (2002) (0)
- Effects of a solute on a simple model solvent (2008) (0)
- Erratum : Statistical Mechanics of Liquid‐Vapor Equilibrium (1957) (0)
- The third law (2002) (0)
- A Conversation with Ben Widom (2012) (0)
- Publications of Benjamin Widom. (2018) (0)
- Wetting, prewetting, and line tension (1991) (0)
- SURFACE TENSION OF A TWO-COMPONENT LIQUID MIXTURE NEAR ITS CRITICAL SOLUTION POINT (1983) (0)
- CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE CRITICAL POINT. (1967) (0)
- Simon Bauer 100th Birthday Celebration (2011) (0)
- Colleagues of Benjamin Widom. (2018) (0)
- Benjamin Widom (2005) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics: The ideal gas (2002) (0)
- Theories of Surface Tension (1986) (0)
- In Memorium: Oscar Knefler Rice, 1903–1978 (1979) (0)
- Curriculum Vitae of Benjamin Widom. (2018) (0)
- Scientific Autobiography of Benjamin Widom. (2018) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics: Ideal harmonic solid and black-body radiation (2002) (0)
- Exchange of Energy in Molecular Collisions. (1953) (0)
- Three-phase equilibrium and the tricritical point (1981) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics: Quantum ideal gases (2002) (0)
- Publisher's note: Molecular correlations and solvation in simple fluids (2010) (0)
- ON THE MECHANISM OF THE HYDROGEN-IODINE REACTION (1975) (0)
- The non-ideal gas (2002) (0)
- Correlation functions in decorated lattice models (2000) (0)
- Thickness of the Liquid-Vapor Wetting Layer | NIST (1982) (0)
- Hydrophobic Effects as Seen in Lattice Models (2006) (0)
- Imprisoned Argentine Scientist (1977) (0)
- Introduction to commemorative issue for Professor Simon H. Bauer (2001) (0)
- Reply to ‘Comment on “The hydrophobic effect”’ by G. Graziano, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2004, 6, DOI: 10.1039/b405824k (2004) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics: Chemical equilibrium in ideal-gas mixtures (2002) (0)
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