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Martin David Kruskal. 28 September 1925 — 26 December 2006

J. D. Gibbon, S. C. Cowley, N. Joshi, M. A. H. MacCallum
Published 30 August 2017.DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0022
J. D. Gibbon
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK
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S. C. Cowley
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK
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N. Joshi
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia
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M. A. H. MacCallum
Department of Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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Martin David Kruskal was one of the most versatile theoretical physicists of his generation and is distinguished for his enduring work in several different areas, most notably plasma physics, a memorable detour into relativity and his pioneering work in nonlinear waves. In the latter, together with Norman Zabusky, he invented the concept of the soliton and, with others, developed its application to classes of partial differential equations of physical significance.

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J. D. Gibbon, S. C. Cowley, N. Joshi, M. A. H. MacCallum
Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 2017 -; DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0022. Published 30 August 2017
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Martin David Kruskal. 28 September 1925 — 26 December 2006

J. D. Gibbon, S. C. Cowley, N. Joshi, M. A. H. MacCallum
Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 2017 -; DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0022. Published 30 August 2017

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