Statistical Physics and Irreversible Processes (Volume 2)

by Stephen G. Brush

Paperback.

470 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 1986

About the author

A scholar in the history of science, Stephen George Brush earned his BS in physics at Harvard University and his D.Phil. at Oxford University. After a year as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Imperial College London, Brush worked as a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California in the area of statistical mechanics from 1959 until 1965. He was a lecturer in Physics at Harvard University from 1965 until 1968, and a historian of science at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1968 until his retirement as Distinguished Professor of the History of Science in 2007.