Peter Mazur was born on Vienna, Austria, 11 December 1922; died Lausanne, Switzerland, 15 August 2001 and was an Austrian-born, Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
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Peter Mazur is the father of Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur.
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Peter Mazur was born on 11 December 1922 in Vienna, Austria.
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In 1931 the family left for Berlin, where Mazur attended the Franzosisches Gymnasium.
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In 1939 Peter Mazur moved to The Hague in the Netherlands, but in 1940 the occupying Nazis no longer permitted Jews to live near the seacoast and the family moved to Zeist.
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One month after the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II, Peter Mazur was reunited with his parents.
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In 1951, Peter Mazur obtained his doctorate under the direction of Sybren de Groot with a thesis entitled, "Thermodynamics of Transport Phenomena in Liquid Helium-2".
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In 1961, Peter Mazur became a full professor, and when de Groot left in 1963, he became director of the institute.
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Peter Mazur filled this position in his own distinctive way for 25 years until he became emeritus in 1988.
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Peter Mazur served on the boards of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research of Matter.
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In 1970 Peter Mazur became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Significant results included the derivation of the Langevin equation with Irwin Oppenheim and the classic paper on harmonic oscillator systems by George Ford, Mark Kac, and Peter Mazur, which was published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.
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Peter Mazur had a good nose for problems ripe to be investigated.