12 Facts About EGD Cohen

Ezechiel Godert David "Eddie" Cohen was a Dutch-American physicist and Professor Emeritus at The Rockefeller University.

EGD Cohen is widely recognised for his contributions to statistical physics.

In 2004 EGD Cohen was awarded the Boltzmann Medal, jointly with Prof.

Ezechiel Godert David EGD Cohen was born in Amsterdam in 1923.

EGD Cohen spent World War II being sheltered in safe houses in the Netherlands.

EGD Cohen was a research associate for two years at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor working with George Uhlenbeck and Theodore Berlin, the Johns Hopkins University and an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam before moving to the Rockefeller University in New York as a professor in 1963.

In 2004 EGD Cohen received the triannual Boltzmann Medal from the Committee on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, its highest award for contributions to statistical mechanics.

In 1979 EGD Cohen became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

EGD Cohen was preceded in death by his parents Dr DE Cohen and Sophia L Cohen who both were murdered in Auschwitz after being betrayed from hiding in the Netherlands, and his wife Marina A Cohen .

Early in his career, EGD Cohen predicted the possibility of an incomplete phase separation in liquid helium mixtures at very low temperatures that was later discovered experimentally, leading to the design of the helium dilution refrigerator, one of the basic low-temperature instruments available.

In 1995 Gallavotti and EGD Cohen described a proof employing the so-called chaotic hypothesis, of the so-called Gallavotti EGD Cohen Fluctuation Theorem.

EGD Cohen's lab has focused on determining a numerical approach to understand the origin of this phenomenon, because neither probability theory nor kinetic theory is applicable to these systems.