Bernard Lippmann

Bernard Lippmann
Born
Bernard Abram Lippmann

(1914-08-18)August 18, 1914
DiedFebruary 12, 1988(1988-02-12) (aged 73)
Alma materNew York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (BS)
University of Michigan (MS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known forLippmann-Schwinger equation
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsRadiation Laboratory (MIT)
United States Naval Research Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
New York University
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Doctoral advisorJulian Schwinger

Bernard Abram Lippmann. (August 18, 1914 – February 12, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. A former professor of physics at New York University, Lippmann is mainly known for the Lippmann-Schwinger equation, a widely used tool in non-relativistic scattering theory, which he formulated together with his doctoral supervisor Julian Schwinger