Jerry Gollub
Jerry Gollub graduated from Oberlin College and earned his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics. He then joined the Faculty at Haverford College in 1970, where he holds the J.&B. Bush Chair in the Natural Sciences. Gollub served as Provost of the College, and teaches courses for a broad audience such as "Energy Options and Science Policy." He has also been Adjunct Professor of Physics at University of Pennsylvania since 1981. Gollub has undertaken a wide range of experiments on nonlinear phenomena, including studies of instabilities and pattern formation in fluids, chaotic dynamics and turbulence, nonlinear waves, the dynamics of granular materials, and mixing in fluids. Recently he has extended his work on fluid dynamics to studies of the fluid flows created by swimming microorganisms. He has co-authored a textbook on chaotic dynamics. Honors include he 2003 Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society and the 1985 APS Award for Research in an Undergraduate Institution. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, where he served on its governing Council. He has recently served as Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University of Cambridge, and as the Fritz London Lecturer at Duke. He served as Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of APS, has been a member of the APS Executive Board, and has been an invited columnist for Physics Today.
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University of Michigan Sponsors
- Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
- Center for Studies of Complex Systems
- Medical School
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Physics
- Biophysics Program