Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger

Joaquin (Quin) Mazdak Luttinger (December 2, 1923 – April 6, 1997) was an American physicist well known for his contributions to the theory of interacting electrons in one-dimensional metals^[1] (the electrons in these metals are said to be in a Luttinger-liquid state) and the Fermi-liquid theory. He received his BS and PhD in physics from MIT in 1947.^[2] His brother was the physical chemist Lionel Luttinger (1920–2009) and his nephew is the mathematician Karl Murad Luttinger (born 1961).

Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger
Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger
Born	(1923-12-02)2 December 1923 New York City, United States
Died	6 April 1997(1997-04-06) (aged 73) New York City, US
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Luttinger liquid Luttinger's theorem Luttinger parameter Luttinger–Kohn model Luttinger–Ward functional Anomalous Hall effect Kohn–Luttinger superconductivity
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1974)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics of interacting particles
Institutions	University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University
Notable students	T. V. Ramakrishnan

See also

• Negative mass
• Schrieffer–Wolff transformation
• Wiener sausage
• Fermi liquid
• Many-body problem
• Anomalous magnetic moment
• Effective mass theory
• k·p perturbation theory