| Gregory Wannier |
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| 1911 births | |
| 1983 deaths | |
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He attended Princeton as a graduate student and later taught at several American universities before a stint in industry. He developed a complete set of Orthogonal Function s known as the Wannier Function s which became tools of the trade for Solid-state theorists. He also had made contributions to Ferromagnetic Theory via the Ising Model . He returned to academia in 1961 at the University Of Oregon . He published a series of important papers on the properties of Crystal s, working with graduate students and visiting professors. Additionally he published widely read textbooks on solid-state theory and statistical mechanics. He was regarded by many in the department as its most eminent member until his death on October 21, 1983. |
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