John Hubbard (27 October 1931 – 27 November 1980) was a British
physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
, best known for the
Hubbard model for interacting electrons, the
Hubbard–Stratonovich transformation, and the Hubbard approximations. He graduated from
Imperial College London
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, receiving a B.Sc. (1955) and a Ph.D. degree (1958).
He was the Head of the Solid State Theory Group at the
Atomic Energy Research Establishment in
Harwell (England), and worked at the
IBM Research Laboratory
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in
San Jose, California (1976–1980).
References
External links
Biographyby A. L. Kuzemsky, 2006.
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John Hubbard 1931–1980by
David Thouless, 18 June 2013
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1931 births
1980 deaths
Alumni of Imperial College London
IBM employees
British physicists