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Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (Greek: Νικόλαος Μητρόπουλος; June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist. Metropolis received his BSc (1937) and PhD in physics (1941, with Robert Mulliken) at the University of Chicago.
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was born on June 11th, 1915, in Chicago. In 1936 he received his bachelor’s degree, and in 1941, his doctorate, both from the University of Chicago, and both in experimental physics.
We shall present here the motivation and a general descrip- tion of a method dealing with a class of problems in mathe- matical physics. The method is, essentially, a statistical approach to the study of differential equations, or more generally, of integro-differential equations that occur in various branches of the natural sciences. ALREADY.
Nicholas Metropolis arrived in Los Alamos in 1943. Shortly after receiving his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago, Metropolis was recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to lead efforts in computational research for the bomb.
Oct 23, 1999 · Dr. Nicholas C. Metropolis, a mathematician who was one of the initial team of scientists involved with the Manhattan Project and who later became a pioneer in computer science, died last Sunday...
Nicholas (Nick) Metropolis. Born June 11, 1915, Chicago, Ill; developer and implementer of the MANIAC system at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Honors and Awards: Education: BS, University of Chicago, 1937; PhD, physics, University of Chicago, 1941.
Nicholas (Nick) Metropolis. Born June 11, 1915, Chicago, Ill; developer and implementer of the MANIAC system at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Education: BS, University of Chicago, 1937; PhD, physics, University of Chicago, 1941.
