László Tisza
László Tisza | |
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| Born | July 7, 1907 |
| Died | April 15, 2009 (aged 101) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Budapest University of Göttingen Leipzig University |
| Known for | Two-fluid model |
| Awards | Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Guggenheim Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics Quantum mechanics Thermodynamics |
| Institutions | Kharkiv Theoretical Physics School Collège de France Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral students | Martin J. Klein Herbert Callen |
László Tisza (July 7, 1907 – April 15, 2009) was a Hungarian-born American physicist who was Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. He was a colleague of famed physicists Edward Teller, Lev Landau and Fritz London, and initiated the two-fluid model of liquid helium.