John Pasta
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John Robert Pasta (October 22, 1918 – June 5, 1981) was an American computational physicist and computer scientist who is remembered today for the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou experiment, the result of which was much discussed among physicists and researchers in the fields of dynamical systems and chaos theory, and as the head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1970.
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John Pasta | |
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Born | October 22, 1918 |
Died | June 5, 1981(1981-06-05) (aged 62) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | New York University |
Known for | Co-originating the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou experiment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational Physics |
Institutions | Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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