Barry Malcolm McCoy (born 14 December 1940 in

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from

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(1963), and a

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from

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(1967), the thesis entitled ''Spin Correlations of the Two Dimensional Ising Model'' advised by

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. The two of them also wrote the book ''The Two Dimensional Ising Model'' (

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, 1973). He then joined the institute for theoretical physics at State University of New York at Stony Brook (1967). where he has since been, now as a distinguished professor. McCoy was visiting at

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several times (first in 1980), the

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and the

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. In 1998 McCoy, was with Alexander Berkovich, an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. With colleagues

and

Alexander Zamolodchikov Alexander Borisovich Zamolodchikov (russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Замоло́дчиков; born September 18, 1952) is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions to condensed matter physics, two-dimensional conform ...

, he was awarded the

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1999, for "his work on the statistical mechanics of the

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, including boundary critical phenomena, randomly layered systems which have Griffiths-McCoy singularities, the Painleve representation of the two point function, quadratic difference equations for the n-point functions, and the Ising model in a magnetic field. Dr. McCoy has in addition made contributions to the study of quantum spin chains, and the Fermionic representations of conformal field theory, and has been a co-discoverer of the integrable chiral Potts model. He has also worked extensively in quantum field theory and more recently has become known for his mathematical work in nonlinear differential equations and the theory of Rogers-Ramanujan identities".Heineman Prize
description from his homepage. His doctoral students include Rinat Kedem,

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, and

Craig Tracy Craig Arnold Tracy (born September 9, 1945) is an American mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory. Born in United Kingdom, he moved as infant to Missouri where he grew up and obtained a B.Sc. i ...

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