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M. Lawrence "Larry" Glasser (born October 5, 1933, in Crookston, Minnesota) is an American physicist and mathematician who is best known as the author of Glasser’s Master Theorem[1]. A professor emeritus of physics at Clarkson University, he received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), both in mathematics, and his Ph.D. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University (then Carnegie Institute of Technology) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962. Glasser married Judith Sensibar (1936–2015) in 1956, and together they raised four children.
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Glasser worked as a research scientist from 1962 to 1974 for Battelle Institute in Columbus, Ohio. He then worked as a professor of physics and mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, before joining the faculty at Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY) as a professor of physics, mathematics, and computer science, with interests in theoretical solid state physics, semiconductor nanostructures, and applied mathematics. Glasser retired from and was awarded emeritus status at Clarkson in 2008.
Beginning in 1996, Glasser spent winters as a visiting professor and advisor at the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain. His relationship with the university continued until 2020.
In collaboration with nearly 100 co-authors, including Norman March, Freeman Dyson, and Jon Borwwein, Glasser has published over 400 research papers and three books in physics and mathematics. His Erdős number is 2. His eponymous results include Glasser’s Master Theorem,[2] the Glasser Transform, the Glasser function, the Glasser–Lehman Theorem, the Onsager–Glasser Theorem and the Kaplan–Glasser State.[3]
After receiving his Ph.D. from Carnegie in 1961 for work proving the absence of charge renormalization in metals under anomalous skin-effect conditions)[2] he was hired by Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Apart from one year (1964–1965) as an assistant professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Glasser spent 12 years at Battelle. When the institute was reorganized in 1974, he left for a visiting professorship at The University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 1977, Glasser joined Clarkson College of Technology (now Clarkson University) in Potsdam, NY. retiring in 2005 after serving as Chairman of Physics. Glasser has also had visit
While still a graduate student he presented the first algebraic analysis of the crystal structure of the semiconducting mineral Wurtzite[3]. In 1963, he and Frederick Milford uncovered an anomaly in the magnetic behavior of the mineral magnetite[4], and the following year he resolved a long-standing puzzle concerning magnetic oscillations in the Knight Shift of certain metals[5]. The following year he worked out the exact free energy of several model ferroelectrics introduced by E. Lieb[6]. He and P. Forrester presented the first exact evaluation of an electrostatic energy at a non-symmetry point in the unit cell of an ionic crystal (NaCl)[7]. Other achievements include the relativistic version of the Kronig–Penney model[8].
[1] M.L, Glasser and J.Callaway, Electronic Energy Bands in Lithium, Phys. Rev.109, 1541 (1958). [2] M.L. Glasser, Transverse Conductivity of an Electron Gas: Zero frequency Limit, Phys. Rev. 129, 472 (1963). [3] M.L. Glasser, Symmetry Properties of the wurtzite Structure, J, Phys. Chem. Solids 10, 229 (1959) [4] M.L. Glasser and F. J. Milford, Spin-Wave Spectra of Magnetite, Phys Rev. 140, 1783 (1963). [5]M.L. Glasser, Magnetic Field Dependence of the Knight Shift, Phys. Rev. 150, 134 (1966). [6] M.L. Glasser, D. Abraham and. E.H. Lieb, Analytic Properties of the Free Energy for the “Ice” Models, J. Mathematical Physics 15, 887 (1972). [7] J.M. Borwein, M.L.Glasser, R.C. McPhedran, J.G. Wan and I.J. Zucker, Lattice Sums Then and Now. Cambridge U.P. (2013)] [8] P. Strange, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: with Applications [Cambridge U.P, (1996)]
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