Shang-keng Ma
Shang-keng Ma | |
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馬上庚 | |
| Born | September 24, 1940 |
| Died | November 24, 1983 (aged 43) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Thesis | Correlations of Photons from a Thermal Source (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth M. Watson |
Shang-keng Ma (September 24, 1940 – November 24, 1983) was a Chinese theoretical physicist, known for his work on the theory of critical phenomena and random systems. He is known as the co-author with Bertrand Halperin and Pierre Hohenberg of a 1972 paper that "generalized the renormalization group theory to dynamical critical phenomena." Ma is also known as the co-author with Yoseph Imry of a 1975 paper and with Amnon Aharony and Imry of a 1976 paper that established the foundation of the random field Ising model (RFIM)