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Max Krook (1913 – 4 August 1985) was an American mathematician and astrophysicst.〔"(MAX KROOK, 72, DIES, EX-PROFESSOR ), ''The New York Times'', 10 August 1985 (accessed 12 June 2008).〕 Krook was born in Standerton, South Africa, the son of Pesach Israel Krook and Leah Krook.〔(Geni, "Max Krook" )〕 An undergraduate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Krook received a doctorate in mathematics from Cambridge University in England in 1938 under the supervision of Arthur Eddington.〔(Mathematics Genealogy Database, "Max Krook" )〕 He was subsequently recruited to Birmingham University by Rudolf Peierls.〔G.E. Brown, Selected Papers with Commentary, of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme (World Scientific, 1994), p. 13.〕 Krook came to the United States in 1950 as a research associate in physics at the University of Indiana, soon moving to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was additionally appointed a research fellow at the Harvard College Observatory in 1952. In 1956, he became a lecturer in astronomy, and, in 1959, a professor in the Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences and the department of astronomy. Robert May (later, Baron May of Oxford) was one of his first postdoctoral students.〔(Australian Academy of Science, "Lord Robert May, physicist and ecologist" )〕 Krook was for decades a regular at Cambridge's Legal Sea Foods restaurant, where a particular table was often held for him at lunchtime.〔 Krook married Gulielma Penn-Gaskel White, a tenth generation descendent of William Penn,〔(Leigh Jackson, "All The Statues Were Related To Me", Philadelphia Inquirer (October 24, 1994) )〕 1952 graduate of Radcliffe College, and later successful photographer, in 1956. Although ultimately divorced, they continued to share a residence in Arlington, Massachusetts until the time of his death.〔(SheltiesOnLine.com, "Memorial: Gulielma Penn-Gaskel White Krook, 76, photographed shelties and collies" )〕 Krook is remembered for his contribution to the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model.〔 ==Selected works== * ''Functions of a Complex Variable: Theory and Technique'', by George F. Carrier, Max Krook, and Carl E. Pearson, SIAM, 2005, ISBN 0-89871-595-4 (first edition: McGraw-Hill, 1966, ISBN 0-07-010089-6). * P. L. Bhatnagar, E. P. Gross, and M. Krook, "A Model for Collision Processes in Gases. I. Small Amplitude Processes in Charged and Neutral One-Component Systems", ''Phys. Rev.'' 94, 511-525 (1954). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Krook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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