Seth Putterman

Seth J. Putterman
Born (1945-12-18) December 18, 1945
NationalityAmerican
EducationCooper Union
California Institute of Technology
Rockefeller University
Known forSonoluminescence
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Towards a Macroscopic Theory of Superfluids  (1970)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Uhlenbeck
Websiteacoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu

Seth J. Putterman (born December 18, 1945) is an American physicist. He is known to have an eclectic approach to research topics that broadly revolves around energy-focusing phenomena in nonlinear, continuous systems, with particular interest in turbulence, sonoluminescence, sonofusion and pyrofusion.