Marvin D. Girardeau

Marvin D. Girardeau (3 October 1930 – 13 January 2015)^[1][2] was a quantum physicist, and a faculty member in the at the University of Oregon, where he was hired as a professor in 1963 and worked until his retirement in 2000, after which he became a research professor at the University of Arizona. He was a mathematical physicist with an unusual nonlinear career, which culminated in a remarkable impact in the ultracold atom physics community.^[3] One of Girardeau's achievements was to predict the existence of the Tonks–Girardeau gas in 1960. A Tonks–Girardeau gas was created in 2004, and its measured properties strikingly confirmed Girardeau's original predictions.

His research interests included the dynamics of atomic vapour confined in tight de Broglie waveguides; and the behaviour of identical particles including fermions, bosons, and anyons.

Girardeau was a fellow of the American Physical Society, and winner of the 1984 Humboldt Prize. His 1984-86 tenure at the , Mühlheim/Ruhr, Germany, followed. In 2013, Marvin was nominated for a prestigious Senior by the European Community.

References[]

• https://archive.today/20121212224717/http://www.optics.arizona.edu/girardeau/
• https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2040690306_M_D_Girardeau
• https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/0/5172/files/2016/10/PhysHist2016-1lpjqx1.pdf
• https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.6134/full/