{"title":"From Varenna (1970) to Como (1995): Kurt Binder’s long walk in the land of criticality","authors":"Michel Mareschal","doi":"10.1140/epjh/e2019-100016-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>\nThis paper aims at contributing to the history of early computational statistical mechanics. The topic concerns the physics near a critical point and how long it took for Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to be seriously considered by the community as a valid and important tool to analyze critical phenomena. We will focus on one of the leading scientific figures behind this effort: Kurt Binder, whose scientific achievements were acknowledged by the award of the Boltzmann medal in 2007. Kurt Binder, who is now 75, has retired, some years ago, from a Professorship at the University of Mainz.\n</p>","PeriodicalId":791,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal H","volume":"44 2","pages":"161 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1140/epjh/e2019-100016-3","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The European Physical Journal H","FirstCategoryId":"4","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjh/e2019-100016-3","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper aims at contributing to the history of early computational statistical mechanics. The topic concerns the physics near a critical point and how long it took for Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to be seriously considered by the community as a valid and important tool to analyze critical phenomena. We will focus on one of the leading scientific figures behind this effort: Kurt Binder, whose scientific achievements were acknowledged by the award of the Boltzmann medal in 2007. Kurt Binder, who is now 75, has retired, some years ago, from a Professorship at the University of Mainz.
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