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    Robert Davis Richtmyer (October 10, 1910 – September 24, 2003) was an American physicist, mathematician, educator, author, and musician. Richtmyer was...
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  • to Peter Lax. It is sometimes called the Lax–Richtmyer theorem, after Peter Lax and Robert D. Richtmyer. Strikwerda, John C. (1989). Finite Difference...
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  • The Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) occurs when two fluids of different density are impulsively accelerated. Normally this is by the passage of a...
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  • Mathematical Society. p. 18 ff. ISBN 978-0-8218-3900-3. Arlan Ramsay; Robert D. Richtmyer (1995). Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry. Springer. p. 11. ISBN 0-387-94339-0...
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    Systems IV. MIT Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-262-51309-8. Arlan Ramsay; Robert D. Richtmyer (1995). Introduction to hyperbolic geometry. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 0-387-94339-0...
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  • (1931–2018) Nobel laureate Floyd K. Richtmyer – United States (1881–1939) Robert D. Richtmyer – (1910–2003) Charlotte Riefenstahl – Germany (1899–1993) Nikolaus...
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    John von Neumann (category Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C.)
    became an authority on the mathematics of shaped charges. Later with Robert D. Richtmyer, von Neumann developed an algorithm defining artificial viscosity...
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    : Dover Publications. p. 58. ISBN 0-486-44222-5. Ramsay, Arlan; Richtmyer, Robert D. (1995). Introduction to hyperbolic geometry. New York: Springer-Verlag...
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; /ˈɒpənhaɪmər/ OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist...
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    received an offer of a position at Los Alamos from Metropolis and Robert D. Richtmyer, the new head of its theoretical division, at a higher salary, and...
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  • Richardson – English meteorologist and mathematician (1881–1953) Robert D. Richtmyer – American mathematician Norman Riley (professor) – British mathematician...
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  • understanding of electromagnetic phenomena in dielectric resonators. In 1939 Robert D. Richtmyer published a study in which he showed that dielectric structures can...
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    Floyd Karker Richtmyer (October 12, 1881 – November 7, 1939) was a physicist and educator in the United States. Richtmyer was born October 12, 1881, in...
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  • Ph.D. in 1964 at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences on the computer simulation of shock waves, jointly supervised by Robert D. Richtmyer and...
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    for the ANP project to power an airplane with a nuclear reactor. Robert D. Richtmyer of Los Alamos National Laboratory used the SSEC for some of the first...
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  • The Richtmyer Memorial Award is an award for physics education, named for physicist Floyd K. Richtmyer and given annually by the American Association of...
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    D., "In defense of Robert Andrews Millikan", Engineering and Science, 2000. No 4, pp30–38 (pdf). Millikan, R A (1950). The Autobiography of Robert Millikan...
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    by the passage of shocks through inhomogeneous media, such as in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability.[citation needed] Experienced divers are familiar...
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  • (astrophysicist) Robert C. Dynes Robert Coleman Richardson Robert Corey Robert Cornog Robert D. Maurer Robert D. Richtmyer Robert Delbourgo Robert Dunkin Robert Döpel...
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  • author. Jean Pélégri, 83, French writer and professor of literature. Robert D. Richtmyer, 92, American physicist, author, and musician. Edward Said, 67,...
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  • Over the Years". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2023-06-09. "Robert D. Richtmyer". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-02...
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    for his undergraduate teaching and public outreach, including the 2007 Richtmyer Memorial Award given annually by the American Association of Physics Teachers...
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    Robert Fox Bacher (August 31, 1905 – November 18, 2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Born in Loudonville...
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    18. Robert Marshak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Henley, Ernest M.; Lustig, Harry (1999). Robert Eugene Marshak, 1916-1992. Washington, D.C.: National...
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  • Gaylord P. Harnwell 1940: Joseph A. Becker 1932-1939: F. K. Richtmyer 1930-1932: Paul D. Foote "Review of Scientific Instruments". 2018 Journal Citation...
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    cousin Frances Leof in 1928. Robert Serber earned his BS in engineering physics from Lehigh University in 1930 and earned his PhD in physics from the University...
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    the laboratory; his scientific contacts there, including Metropolis, Robert Richtmyer, and Edward Teller; von Neumann's first hands-on experience with punched...
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    Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered...
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  • The creators of these methods were Stanislaw Ulam, John von Neumann, Robert Richtmyer, and Nicholas Metropolis. Monte Carlo for radiation transport was conceived...
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    Bartle, Robert G.; Sherbert, Donald R. (1982). Introduction to Real Analysis. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-05944-7. Richtmyer, Robert D. (1978)...
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