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Seth Putterman
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<h2 id="education-and-career">Education and career</h2> <p>Putterman studied physics at <a href="/facts/Cooper_Union/jqbmQ9eV">Cooper Union</a> in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York</a> for two years before transferring to the <a href="/facts/California_Institute_of_Technology/3FPcp7BL">California Institute of Technology</a> in <a href="/facts/Pasadena%2c_California/Y6AEEI03">Pasadena</a>, graduating in 1966. In 1970, he received his doctorate under <a href="/facts/George_Uhlenbeck/IVKgKcVF">George Uhlenbeck</a> at the <a href="/facts/Rockefeller_University/aKJwezNa">Rockefeller University</a> in New York. His PhD work dealt with <a href="/facts/Quantum_fluid/bFHpunBN">quantum fluids</a> and he contributed to the theory of <a href="/facts/Superfluidity/QuePDujN">superfluidity</a> of <a href="/facts/Helium/yRul93TG">helium</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>Putterman is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the <a href="/facts/California_NanoSystems_Institute/p1e8jL2T">California NanoSystems Institute</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_Los_Angeles/KwPz7AK1">University of California, Los Angeles</a>. His group demonstrated<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> <a href="/facts/X-ray/wseP79cN">X-ray</a> generation from the <a href="/facts/Triboelectric_effect/Ga1uNMJo">triboelectric effect</a> by peeling a strip of <a href="/facts/Scotch_Tape/yyGuxQzc">Scotch tape</a> in 2008. </p> <h2 id="honors-and-awards">Honors and awards</h2> <p>Putterman received the <a href="/facts/Sloan_Research_Fellowship/t1GjMd2r">Sloan Research Fellowship</a> from the <a href="/facts/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation/bIGkfYAS">Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</a> in 1972. He is a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/American_Physical_Society/DCkkU6dD">American Physical Society</a> (1997)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> and the <a href="/facts/Acoustical_Society_of_America/0PvCloyB">Acoustical Society of America</a>. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Sonoluminescence/BIXNbsGX">Sonoluminescence</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Pyroelectric_fusion/1oRU4brW">Pyroelectric fusion</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Rusi_Taleyarkhan/702srz2o">Rusi Taleyarkhan</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBjRF9mX1Y">Video showing X-ray generation by peeling Scotch tape from Putterman's lab</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Putterman, S. J.; Weninger, K. R. (2000-01-01). "Sonoluminescence: How Bubbles Turn Sound into Light". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 32 (1): 445–476. Bibcode:2000AnRFM..32..445P. doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445. ISSN 0066-4189. <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445" target="_blank">https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.445</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Naranjo, B.; Gimzewski, J.K.; Putterman, S. (2005-04-28). "Observation of nuclear fusion driven by a pyroelectric crystal". Nature. 434 (7037): 1115–1117. Bibcode:2005Natur.434.1115N. doi:10.1038/nature03575. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 15858570. S2CID 4407334. <a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/nature03575" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/articles/nature03575</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Brumfiel, Geoff (2005-10-26). "Far from the frontier". Nature. 437 (7063): 1224–1225. doi:10.1038/4371224a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 16251921. S2CID 4303092. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038%2F4371224a" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038%2F4371224a</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Putterman, Seth (1972). "The phenomenology of vortices in superfluid helium". Physics Reports. 4 (2): 67–94. Bibcode:1972PhR.....4...67P. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(72)90006-3. <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0370157372900063" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0370157372900063</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Putterman, Seth J. (1974). Superfluid hydrodynamics. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co. ISBN 0-444-10681-2. OCLC 1095109. <a href="0-444-10681-2" target="_blank">0-444-10681-2</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Camara, Carlos G.; Escobar, Juan V.; Hird, Jonathan R.; Putterman, Seth J. (2008-10-23). "Correlation between nanosecond X-ray flashes and stick–slip friction in peeling tape". Nature. 455 (7216): 1089–1092. Bibcode:2008Natur.455.1089C. doi:10.1038/nature07378. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4372536. <a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/nature07378" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/articles/nature07378</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Hird, J. R.; Camara, C. G.; Putterman, S. J. (2011-03-28). "A triboelectric x-ray source". Applied Physics Letters. 98 (13): 133501. Bibcode:2011ApPhL..98m3501H. doi:10.1063/1.3570688. ISSN 0003-6951. <a href="http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3570688" target="_blank">http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3570688</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Kneip, Stefan (2011-05-25). "A stroke of X-ray". Nature. 473 (7348): 455–456. doi:10.1038/473455a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 21614067. S2CID 205064684. <a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/473455a" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/articles/473455a</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1997 and institution=University of California, Los Angeles) <a href="https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1997&unit_id=&institution=University+of+California%2C+Los+Angeles" target="_blank">https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1997&unit_id=&institution=University+of+California%2C+Los+Angeles</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>