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Sethna, James Patarasp was born on August 23, 1955 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Patarasp Rustomji and Shirley Sue Sethna.
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James Patarasp Sethna
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James Patarasp Sethna, American Physicist. Achievements include research in Barkhausennoise in magnets using a critical point in the shape of the hysteresis loop; onset of chaos from quasiperiodic motion; elastic theory has zero radius of convergenceusing thermodynamics of cracks; modeled the cholesteric blue phase of liquid crystals as a network of disclination lines.
Education
Bachelor in Physics, Harvard University, 1977; Master in Physics, Princeton University, 1978; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Princeton University, 1981.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow Institute Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981-1982, 83-84; postdoctoral fellow Laboratory Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Laboratory Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1982-1983; assistant professor, Laboratory Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1984-1989; associate professor, Laboratory Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1989-1995; professor, Laboratory Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1995.
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Married Carol Margaret Devine, April 1, 1989.
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