Christopher Jarzynski
Christopher Jarzynski is an American physicist and distinguished university professor at University of Maryland's department of chemistry and biochemistry, department of physics, and institute for physical science and technology, and fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He is known for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, for which he was awarded the 2019 Lars Onsager Prize. In 1997, he derived the now famous Jarzynski equality, confirmation of which was cited by the Nobel Committee for Physics as an application of one of the winning inventions of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics—optical tweezers.
Christopher Jarzynski | |
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| Born | November 23, 1965 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Jarzynski equality |
| Awards | Sacler Prize Onsager Prize American Physical Society Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow Simons Fellow Guggenheim Fellow Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | Władysław J. Świątecki Robert Grayson Littlejohn |
| Website | http://www.chem.umd.edu/faculty-staff-directory/facultydirectory/christopher-jarzynski |
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