Seth Putterman

Seth J. Putterman (born 1945) is an American physicist. He studied physics at Cooper Union in New York for two years before transferring to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, graduating in 1966. In 1970 he received his doctorate under George Uhlenbeck at the Rockefeller University in New York. His PhD work dealt with quantum fluids and he contributed ot the theory of superfluidity of helium.[1][2] In 1972 he received the Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Seth J. Putterman
Born
New York
EducationCooper Union
California Institute of Technology
Rockefeller University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ThesisTowards a Macroscopic Theory of Superfluids
Doctoral advisorGeorge Uhlenbeck
Websiteacoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu

Putterman is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known to have an eclectic approach to research topics[3] that broadly revolves around energy-focusing phenomena in nonlinear, continuous systems, with particular interest in turbulence, sonoluminescence,[4] sonofusion and pyrofusion.[5] His group demonstrated[6][7][8] X-ray generation from the triboelectric effect by peeling a strip of Scotch tape in 2008.

Putterman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Acoustical Society of America.

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References
  1. Putterman, Seth (1972). "The phenomenology of vortices in superfluid helium". Physics Reports. 4 (2): 67–94. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(72)90006-3.
  2. Putterman, Seth J. (1974). Superfluid hydrodynamics. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co. ISBN 0-444-10681-2. OCLC 1095109.
  3. Brumfiel, Geoff (2005-10-26). "Far from the frontier". Nature. 437 (7063): 1224–1225. doi:10.1038/4371224a. ISSN 0028-0836.
  4. Putterman, S. J.; Weninger, K. R. (2000-01-01). "Sonoluminescence: How Bubbles Turn Sound into Light". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 32 (1): 445–476. doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445. ISSN 0066-4189.
  5. Naranjo, B.; Gimzewski, J.K.; Putterman, S. (2005-04-28). "Observation of nuclear fusion driven by a pyroelectric crystal". Nature. 434 (7037): 1115–1117. doi:10.1038/nature03575. ISSN 0028-0836.
  6. Camara, Carlos G.; Escobar, Juan V.; Hird, Jonathan R.; Putterman, Seth J. (2008-10-23). "Correlation between nanosecond X-ray flashes and stick–slip friction in peeling tape". Nature. 455 (7216): 1089–1092. doi:10.1038/nature07378. ISSN 0028-0836.
  7. Hird, J. R.; Camara, C. G.; Putterman, S. J. (2011-03-28). "A triboelectric x-ray source". Applied Physics Letters. 98 (13): 133501. doi:10.1063/1.3570688. ISSN 0003-6951.
  8. Kneip, Stefan (2011-05-25). "A stroke of X-ray". Nature. 473 (7348): 455–456. doi:10.1038/473455a. ISSN 0028-0836.
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