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New York University.
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Harold Graduate
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Career
His work specialized in the application of statistical mechanics to plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice in 1970 and in Stockholm in 1962. The Courant Institute offers the Harold Graduate Memorial Prize to outstanding performance and promise as a graduate student.
Doctor Graduate received a bachelors in electrical engineering from the Cooper Union in 1943 and his masters at New York University, in 1945.
Graduate did his doctoral work under Richard Courant and graduated in 1948. His thesis was on the approximation of the Boltzmann Equation by torque.
He was then at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University from 1948 as associate professor and from 1957 until his death. Doctor Graduate conducted the research in magnetohydrodynamics, the mathematical formulation of plasma physics and applications of plasma physics to nuclear fusion.
He led the magnetohydrodynamics department from 1956 until 1980.
He was awarded Eringen Medal in 1982.
Achievements
Membership
In 1970 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Nationality
American
Education
Awards
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Guggenheim Fellowship James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics; Eringen Medal
The James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics is an annual American Physical Society (APS) award that is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of the Plasma PhysicsAssociation.The James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics is an annual American Physical Society (APS) award that is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of the Plasma PhysicsAssociation.