Robert Zwanzig
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Robert Zwanzig's Degrees
- PhD Chemistry University of Maryland, College Park
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Walter Zwanzig was an American theoretical physicist and chemist who made important contributions to the statistical mechanics of irreversible processes, protein folding, and the theory of liquids and gases.
Robert Zwanzig's Published Works
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Published Works
- High‐Temperature Equation of State by a Perturbation Method. I. Nonpolar Gases (1954) (2468)
- Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (2001) (1898)
- Ensemble Method in the Theory of Irreversibility (1960) (1817)
- Nonlinear generalized Langevin equations (1973) (1011)
- Memory Effects in Irreversible Thermodynamics (1961) (891)
- Time-Correlation Functions and Transport Coefficients in Statistical Mechanics (1965) (864)
- Rotational friction coefficients for spheroids with the slipping boundary condition (1974) (600)
- On the identity of three generalized master equations (1964) (573)
- Levinthal's paradox. (1992) (474)
- Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes. VII. The Coefficient of Thermal Conductivity of Monatomic Liquids (1954) (461)
- Diffusion in a rough potential. (1988) (423)
- Hydrodynamic Theory of the Velocity Correlation Function (1970) (404)
- High‐Frequency Elastic Moduli of Simple Fluids (1965) (393)
- Diffusion past an entropy barrier (1992) (377)
- Theory of Dielectric Relaxation in Polar Liquids (1970) (335)
- Rate processes with dynamical disorder (1990) (314)
- First-Order Phase Transition in a Gas of Long Thin Rods (1963) (228)
- On the relation between self-diffusion and viscosity of liquids (1983) (217)
- Fluctuation Theory of Surface Tension (1972) (210)
- Molecular Distribution Functions in a One‐Dimensional Fluid (1953) (209)
- STATISTICAL ERROR DUE TO FINITE TIME AVERAGING IN COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS. (1969) (193)
- Collision of a Gas Atom with a Cold Surface (1960) (175)
- Dielectric Friction on a Moving Ion. II. Revised Theory (1970) (173)
- Statistical Mechanics of Irreversibility (1966) (171)
- Dielectric Friction on a Moving Ion (1963) (167)
- Statistical mechanics of a nonlinear stochastic model (1978) (159)
- Dynamical disorder: Passage through a fluctuating bottleneck (1992) (158)
- Modifications of the Stokes-Einstein formula (1985) (149)
- Simple model of protein folding kinetics. (1995) (149)
- Förster migration of electronic excitation between randomly distributed molecules (1978) (146)
- Theory of Vibrational Relaxation in Liquids (1961) (139)
- Two-state models of protein folding kinetics. (1997) (137)
- Boltzmann-Langevin Equation and Hydrodynamic Fluctuations (1969) (134)
- Diffusion-controlled ligand binding to spheres partially covered by receptors: an effective medium treatment. (1990) (133)
- Series expansions in a continuum percolation problem (1977) (124)
- Elementary Derivation of Time‐Correlation Formulas for Transport Coefficients (1964) (123)
- Optimized Rouse–Zimm theory for stiff polymers (1978) (123)
- Method for Finding the Density Expansion of Transport Coefficients of Gases (1963) (115)
- A systematic derivation of exact generalized Brownian motion theory (1975) (114)
- Time dependent rate of diffusion-influenced ligand binding to receptors on cell surfaces. (1991) (114)
- Generalized Hydrodynamics and Analysis of Current Correlation Functions (1971) (111)
- Diffusion limited first contact of the ends of a polymer: Comparison of theory with simulation (1996) (110)
- Compressibility effects in the hydrodynamic theory of Brownian motion (1975) (107)
- The Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes. V. Quantum Hydrodynamics (1951) (95)
- Theoretical basis for the Rouse‐Zimm model in polymer solution dynamics (1974) (94)
- Dielectric relaxation and dynamic susceptibility of a one‐dimensional model for perpendicular‐dipole polymers (1975) (92)
- Fundamental Problems in Statistical Mechanics. (1962) (88)
- A rate process with an entropy barrier (1991) (84)
- Diffusion in a Periodic Lorentz Gas (1983) (83)
- Frequency‐Dependent Transport Coefficients in Fluid Mechanics (1965) (82)
- Brownian motion of a nonlinear oscillator (1971) (76)
- Elementary Excitations in Classical Liquids (1967) (75)
- Quantum‐Mechanical Calculation of Harmonic Oscillator Transition Probabilities. II. Three‐Dimensional Impulsive Collisions (1960) (73)
- On the validity of the kirkwood-riseman theory. (1968) (71)
- Problems in nonlinear transport theory (1980) (66)
- Diffusion in a medium with static traps (1981) (65)
- Non-Markoffian diffusion in a one-dimensional disordered lattice (1982) (64)
- Dielectric Relaxation in a High‐Temperature Dipole Lattice (1963) (61)
- From classical dynamics to continuous time random walks (1983) (60)
- Approximate Eigenfunctions of the Liouville Operator in Classical Many-Body Systems (1966) (55)
- Contribution to the Theory of Brownian Motion (1959) (51)
- Exact Calculation of the Partition Function for a Model of Two‐Dimensional Polymer Crystallization by Chain Folding (1968) (51)
- Two Assumptions in the Theory of Attractive Forces between Long Saturated Chains (1963) (51)
- Hydrodynamic Fluctuations and Stokes' Law Friction (1964) (50)
- Selected topics in statistical mechanics (1968) (50)
- The Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes. VI. A Calculation of the Coefficients of Shear and Bulk Viscosity of Liquids (1953) (47)
- Nonlinear shear viscosity of a gas (1979) (43)
- Anomalous Specific Heat and Viscosity of Binary van der Waals Mixtures (1967) (42)
- Book reviewStatistical mechanics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium: Edited by J. Meixner. 272 pages, diagrams, illustr., 6 × 9 in. Amsterdam, North Holland Pub. Co., 1965. Price, $8.40 (1966) (41)
- On the Validity of the Lorentz—Lorenz Equation Near the Critical Point (1965) (40)
- Strategies for fluctuation renormalization in nonlinear transport theory (1974) (37)
- Shear Relaxation Times of Simple Fluids (1966) (36)
- Dielectric Friction on a Rotating Dipole (1963) (36)
- Reversible diffusion-influenced reactions: comparison of theory and simulation for a simple model (1991) (35)
- Thermodynamic Theory of Structure, Stability and Fluctuations. P. Glansdorff and I. Prigogine. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1971. xxvi, 305 pp., illus. $15.50 (1972) (35)
- Diffusion modulated donor–acceptor energy transfer in a disordered system (1980) (34)
- Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes. XII. Dense Rigid Sphere Fluids (1959) (34)
- Virial Coefficients of ``Parallel Square'' and ``Parallel Cube'' Gases (1956) (33)
- Errata: Radial Distribution Functions and the Equation of State of Monatomic Fluids (1953) (31)
- Memory Effects in Irreversible Thermodynamics: Corrected Derivation of Transport Equations (1972) (31)
- Rotational friction coefficients of a bumpy cylinder with slipping and sticking boundary conditions (1978) (31)
- Hydrodynamic interaction and the dynamic intrinsic viscosity of a flexible polymer (1978) (31)
- Effective diffusion coefficient for a Brownian particle in a two-dimensional periodic channel (1983) (30)
- Influence of Molecular Electric Quadrupole Moments on Dielectric Constants (1956) (29)
- Translational Diffusion in Polymer Solutions (1966) (29)
- Surface Areas of Proteins. III. Adsorption of Water1 (1950) (29)
- Generalized Verhulst laws for population growth. (1973) (28)
- Intrinsic Viscosity of Flexible Macromolecules : Corrected Tables (1955) (25)
- Nonlinear transport equations in statistical mechanics (1981) (25)
- Anomalous Transport Properties of a van der Waals Gas (1968) (25)
- Chronoamperometric current at a random ensemble of microdisk electrodes (1991) (24)
- Approximate Eigenfunctions of the Liouville Operator in Classical Many-Body Systems. II. Hydrodynamic Variables (1967) (21)
- Potts model specific heat critical exponents (1977) (21)
- Dielectric relaxation of a single axis rotator with two equivalent sites (1973) (20)
- Frequency dependent specific heat (1988) (20)
- Comments on Dr. Nettleton's Letter (1962) (20)
- Comments on a paper by Straub, Borkovec, and Berne (1987) (20)
- Kinetics of a Sequence of First‐Order Reactions (1969) (19)
- Diffusion in a dynamically disordered continuum (1989) (18)
- Nonlinear Transport Equations from Statistical Mechanics (1978) (18)
- Rotational relaxation in a gear network (1987) (17)
- Hydrodynamic friction on a moving molecule (1979) (17)
- Langevin Theory of Polymer Dynamics in Dilute Solution (2007) (16)
- Incoherent Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Self-Diffusion (1964) (14)
- Anisotropic bead models for molecular hydrodynamics (1989) (13)
- Brownian Motion and Chemical Kinetics (1958) (13)
- Nonlinear shear viscosity and long time tails. (1981) (12)
- Transition from Quantum to "Classical" Partition Function (1957) (11)
- Electric Quadrupole Moments and Dielectric Constants (1957) (10)
- A HIGHLY CONNECTED RANDOM MASTER EQUATION (1995) (10)
- On the relation between a fluctuating diffusion equation and long time tails in stationary random media (1986) (10)
- Dielectric behavior and structure, dielectric constant and loss, dipole moment and molecular structure: First edition. By Charles Phelps Smyth, Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1955. x + 441 pp. Price $9.00 (1956) (10)
- Tunnel model of liquid diffusion (1974) (9)
- Virial Coefficients of (1956) (9)
- Intermolecular forces from optical spectra of impurities in molecular crystals (1960) (8)
- A Chemical Langevin Equation with Non-Gaussian Noise† (2001) (7)
- A Lattice with an Unusual Frequency Spectrum (1961) (7)
- Barrier Crossing Coupled to a Small Set of Oscillators (2002) (7)
- The concept of irreversibility in statistical mechanics (1970) (7)
- Polymer concentration effects on helix–coil transition widths (1974) (7)
- On the Validity of the Einstein-Smoluchowski Theory of Light Scattering (1964) (6)
- On the slipping boundary condition for low density gas flow (1983) (6)
- Comment on a proposed method for finding barrier height distributions (1995) (5)
- Effect of close contacts on the radius of gyration of a polymer (1997) (3)
- An Introduction to the Statistical Theory of Classical Simple Dense Fluids. G. H. A. Cole. Pergamon, New York, 1967. xii + 284 pp., illus. $12 (1968) (2)
- An Introduction to Theoretical Physical Chemistry. (1962) (2)
- The Quantum-Mechanical Equation of State (1950) (2)
- Elliott Waters Montroll (1984) (2)
- Recent developments in non equilibrium statistical mechanics (1981) (2)
- I Am Curious (Transport Coefficients). (1970) (2)
- Quantum hydrodynamics. A statistical mechanical theory of light scattering from simple non-polar fluids (1952) (1)
- Frequency Spectra of Harmonic Lattices with Weak Long‐Range Interactions (1968) (1)
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transport Processes in Statistical Mechanics, held in Brussels, August 27-31, 1956. (1959) (1)
- WITHDRAWN: Molecular Distribution Functions in a One-Dimensional Fluid * *This work was carried out with support from the U. S. Office of Naval Research under Contract Nonr 410(00) with Yale University. (1966) (0)
- The Liquid State: An Introduction to the Statistical Theory of Classical Simple Dense Fluids . G. H. A. Cole. Pergamon, New York, 1967. xii + 284 pp., illus. $12. (1968) (0)
- Irreversible Processes: Statistical Mechanical Theories of Transport Processes . Robert M. Mazo. Pergamon, New York, 1967. 180 pp., illus. $9.50. International Encyclopedia of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, vol. 9, part 1. (1968) (0)
- Nonequilibrium Processes in Isotopically Disordered Crystals. Dependence on Degree of Order (1961) (0)
- Exchange in bcc Helium Mixtures (2011) (0)
- A tribute to Attila Szabo. (2008) (0)
- Brownian Motion of a (1971) (0)
- Statistical Ensemble: Differential Space, Quantum Systems, and Prediction . Norbert Wiener, Armand Siegel, Bayard Rankin, and William Ted Martin. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1966. 188 pp., illus. $7.50. (1967) (0)
- Interactions of limit cycle oscillators (2008) (0)
- Book review:Studies in statistical mechanics (1981) (0)
- Nonlinear Transport Equations from Statistical Mechanics (Nonlinear Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics--Proceedings of the 1978 Oji Seminar at Kyoto,July 10~14,1978) (1979) (0)
- Probability and Entropy of Macroscopic Fluctuations (1966) (0)
- Statistical Mechanical Theories of Transport Processes. Robert M. Mazo. Pergamon, New York, 1967. 180 pp., illus. $9.50. International Encyclopedia of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, vol. 9, part 1 (1968) (0)
- Irreversible Processes. (Book Reviews: Statistical Mechanical Theories of Transport Processes) (1968) (0)
- Strongly Nonequilibrium States: Thermodynamic Theory of Structure, Stability and Fluctuations . P. Glansdorff and I. Prigogine. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1971. xxvi, 305 pp., illus. $15.50. (1972) (0)
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