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William G. Hoover

William G. Hoover

American computational physicist

William Graham Hoover is an American computational physicist.

He is best known for creating the Nose–Hoover method in molecular dynamics.[1][2]

Selected publications

  • Hoover, William G. (Mar 1985). "Canonical dynamics: Equilibrium phase-space distributions". Phys. Rev. A. 31 (3). American Physical Society: 1695–1697. Bibcode:1985PhRvA..31.1695H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.31.1695.

References

  1. [1]
    Nosé Shuichi, 17 June 1951 -> 17 August 2005, In Memorium (sic), William Graham Hoover.
  2. [2]
    Phil Attard (2012). Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Foundations and Applications. Oxford University Press. p. 393. ISBN 019163977X.


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