Asım Orhan Barut

Asım Orhan Barut (June 6, 1926 – December 5, 1994) was a Turkish-American theoretical physicist.

Education He received both his undergraduate diploma and his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1949 and 1952, respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago during 1953–1954.

Academic life Barut was an assistant professor at Reed College during 1954-55 and then joined the faculty at Syracuse University in 1956. He became a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1962 and served for 32 years.

Research areas His research interests centered on group theoretic methods in physics. His books include Theory of the Scattering Matrix, Electrodynamics and Classical Theory of Fields and Particles and Representations of Noncompact Groups and Applications. Asım Orhan Barut was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1966. 2012 Dover reprint

Editorships Selected Scientific Papers of E. U. Condon, Barut, Asim O., 1991, , Springer-Verlag New York. Selected Popular Writings of E. U. Condon, Barut, Asim O., 1991, , Springer-Verlag New York. Selected Scientific Papers of Alfred Landé, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1987, , Kluwer Academic Publishers. Conformal Groups & Related Symmetries - Physical Results & Mathematical Background, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1986, , Springer-Verlag New York. Quantum Space & Time - The Quest Continues, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1984, , Cambridge University Press. Quantum Electrodynamics & Quantum Optics, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1984, , Plenum Publishing Corporation. Quantum Theory, Groups, Fields & Particles, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1983, , Kluwer Academic Publishers. Electrodynamics & Classical Theory of Fields & Particles, Barut, Asim O., 1980, , Dover Publications, Incorporated. Foundations of Radiation Theory & Quantum Electrodynamics, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1980, , Plenum Publishing Corporation. Group Theory in Non-Linear Problems, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1974, , Kluwer Academic Publishers. Studies in Mathematical Physics, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1973, , Kluwer Academic Publishers. Lectures in Theoretical Physics, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1973, , University Press of Colorado. Boulder Lecture Notes in Theoretical Physics, Barut, Asim O. (ed.), 1967, , Gordon & Breach Publishing Group.

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A representative sample of key publications.