Biography:Robert Marc Mazo
Robert Marc Mazo Professor emeritus | |
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Born | Brooklyn, New York |
Other names | Bob Mazo |
Occupation | Theoretical physical chemist and educator |
Awards | American Physical Society Fellow |
Academic background | |
Education |
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Thesis | Theoretical Studies On Low Temperature Phenomena (1955) |
Doctoral advisor | Lars Onsager John Gamble Kirkwood |
Robert Marc Mazo is a theoretical physical chemist who specialized in statistical mechanics. Educated at Harvard and Yale, he was a research associate at the University of Chicago, and he taught at the California Institute of Technology prior to joining the University of Oregon faculty in 1962. He was designated a professor emeritus in 1996. He is a member of the American Association of University Professors and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Early life and education
Robert Marc Mazo, born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York,[1] is the son of Nathan and Rose Marion (Mazo) Mazo.[2] While in high school in 1948, Mazo won the Seventh Science Talent Search with the project, "Reactions in Liquid Ammonia".[3]
Mazo completed a A.B. at Harvard University in 1952,[4] and an M.S. in Science at Yale University in 1953. With NSF fellowship funding,[5] he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Yale University in 1955, with his dissertation, Theoretical Studies On Low Temperature Phenomena,[6] advised by Lars Onsager and John Gamble Kirkwood.
Mazo and Joan Ruth Spector wed in 1954,[7] and their family includes a daughter and two sons.
Career
Before joining the faculty of the University of Oregon in 1962, Mazo was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute voor Theoretische Physica, University of Amsterdam[8] and a research associate at the University of Chicago (sponsored by the National Science Foundation).[9] He also held an assistant professorship at the California Institute of Technology.[10]
Mazo's research interests were "Exclusively theoretical",[11] and have included "Brownian motion processes, Markov processes, Probabilities, Statistical mechanics, and Transport theory."[12]
During Mazo's 33 year career at the University of Oregon, he served at various times as chair of the chemistry department, director of the Institute Theoretical Science, and as associate dean of the graduate school.[13] He was also a program director of the National Science Foundation.[14]
Selected publications
Books
- Mazo, Robert M. (2008-10-23) (in en). Brownian Motion: Fluctuations, Dynamics, and Applications. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-156508-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=xBdREAAAQBAJ&dq=Brownian+Motion%3A+Fluctuations%2C+Dynamics%2C+and+Applications+%28International+Series+of+Monographs+on+Physics%2C+112%29&pg=PR9.
- Mazo, Robert M. (1967) (in English). Statistical mechanical theories of transport processes. Pergamon Press. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Statistical+mechanical+theories+of+transport+processes&author=Mazo%2C+Robert+M.&publication_year=1967.
- Girardeau, M.D; Mazo, R.M. (1973). "Variational methods in statistical mechanics". in Prigogine, Ilya (in en). Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 24. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 187–245. ISBN 978-0-470-14409-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=xk5v3avOXMAC&dq=%22rm+Mazo%22&pg=PA187.
Articles
- Mazo, Robert M. (1969-12-01). "On the theory of brownian motion. III. Two-body distribution function" (in en). Journal of Statistical Physics 1 (4): 559–562. doi:10.1007/BF01024130. ISSN 1572-9613. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01024130.
- Mittenthal, Jay E.; Mazo, Robert M. (1983-02-07). "A model for shape generation by strain and cell-cell adhesion in the epithelium of an arthropod leg segment" (in en). Journal of Theoretical Biology 100 (3): 443–483. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(83)90441-1. ISSN 0022-5193. PMID 6834865. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-5193%2883%2990441-1.
- Ben-Naim, Arieh; Mazo, Robert M. (October 1993). "Size dependence of the solvation free energies of large solutes" (in en). The Journal of Physical Chemistry 97 (41): 10829–10834. doi:10.1021/j100143a050. ISSN 0022-3654. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j100143a050.
- Paul, E.; Mazo, R. M. (August 1969). "Hydrodynamic Properties of a Plane‐Polygonal Polymer, According to Kirkwood–Riseman Theory" (in en). The Journal of Chemical Physics 51 (3): 1102–1107. doi:10.1063/1.1672109. ISSN 0021-9606. http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1672109.
- Mazo, Robert M. (1965-10-15). "On the Theory of the Concentration Dependence of the Self‐Diffusion Coefficient of Micelles" (in en). The Journal of Chemical Physics 43 (8): 2873–2877. doi:10.1063/1.1697219. ISSN 0021-9606. http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1697219.
Awards, honors
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1961-65[11]
- NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, 1968-69[11]
- Heinrich Hertz Fellow (West Germany)[11]
- Meyerhoff Fellow (Israel)[11]
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, citation: For his many contributions to the statistical mechanics of transport processes, especially to the understanding of Brownian motion and the couplings of moving molecules, 1983.[15]
References
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Marc Mazo.
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- ↑ "New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965". https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61457/images/47769_b353736-00313?pId=3139657.
- ↑ "Obituary for Nathan Mazo (Aged 87)". The Courier-News: pp. 9. 1990-04-30. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102763502/obituary-for-nathan-mazo-aged-87/.
- ↑ Davis, Helen Miles (1951) (in en). Exhibit Techniques. Science Service. p. 96. https://books.google.com/books?id=igZgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Robert+Marc+Mazo%22+-wikipedia.
- ↑ "Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook, Class of 1952" (in en-US). p. 261. http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Harvard_University_Red_Book_Yearbook/1952/Page_261.html.
- ↑ Blanpied, William A. (2007-12-01), The National Science Foundation Class of 1952, National Science Foundation, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u237210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u237210, retrieved 2022-05-29
- ↑ Mazo, Robert M. (1955). Theoretical Studies On Low Temperature Phenomena. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University. https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14963169.
- ↑ "Marriage license applications". The Philadelphia Inquirer: pp. 24. 1954-08-28. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102769415/marriage-license-applications/.
- ↑ "Robert Marc Mazo" (in en-US). 2018-07-16. https://wwlifetimeachievement.com/2018/07/16/robert-marc-mazo/.
- ↑ "The Third Annual Report of the National Science Foundation". 30 June 1953. p. 92. https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1953/annualreports/ar_1953.pdf.
- ↑ Catalog, 1960-1961. Pasadena, California: California Institute of Technology. 1960. p. 19. https://campuspubs.library.caltech.edu/152/1/1960-1961.pdf.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 "Robert Mazo | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry". https://chemistry.uoregon.edu/profile/mazo/.
- ↑ "OCLC WorldCat Identities". http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2002007562/.
- ↑ "Robert Marc Mazo, PhD, Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who" (in en). https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/456489/robert-marc-mazo-phd-presented-with-the-albert-nelson-marquis-lifetime-achievement-award-by-marquis-whos-who.
- ↑ (in en) NSF Bulletin. The Foundation. 1975. p. 21. https://books.google.com/books?id=dqIoAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Mazo%22+program+director+of+the+National+Science+Foundation.&pg=PA21-IA1.
- ↑ "APS Fellow Archive" (in en). http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm.