Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) (Published as Sun, The (Baltimore, MD ) ) - January 8, 2007
Edition: FINAL
Section: LOCAL
Page: 4B
Column: Other Notable Deaths
Martin David Kruskal, a mathematician whose work on the properties of an unusual type of wave helped pave the way for fiber optic technology, died Dec. 26 in Princeton, N.J., after a series of strokes.
He spent 38 years on the faculty of Princeton University before moving to Rutgers University in 1989. His best-known advance came in the 1960s when he was able to explain mathematically a phenomenon first recorded in 1834 when Scottish scientist John Scott Russell noticed a bump of water traveling through a canal near Edinburgh. On his horse, Russell followed the bump for about two miles.
Usually, waves that collide deform each other. But this other kind, which Dr. Kruskal and collaborator Norman Zabusky came to call "solitans," do not; instead, they pass through one another. Light transmitted over fiber optic cables for communication purposes has the same properties.
Edition: FINAL
Section: LOCAL
Page: 4B
Column: Other Notable Deaths
Martin David Kruskal, a mathematician whose work on the properties of an unusual type of wave helped pave the way for fiber optic technology, died Dec. 26 in Princeton, N.J., after a series of strokes.
He spent 38 years on the faculty of Princeton University before moving to Rutgers University in 1989. His best-known advance came in the 1960s when he was able to explain mathematically a phenomenon first recorded in 1834 when Scottish scientist John Scott Russell noticed a bump of water traveling through a canal near Edinburgh. On his horse, Russell followed the bump for about two miles.
Usually, waves that collide deform each other. But this other kind, which Dr. Kruskal and collaborator Norman Zabusky came to call "solitans," do not; instead, they pass through one another. Light transmitted over fiber optic cables for communication purposes has the same properties.
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) (Published as Sun, The (Baltimore, MD ) ) - January 8, 2007
Edition: FINAL
Section: LOCAL
Page: 4B
Column: Other Notable Deaths
Martin David Kruskal, a mathematician whose work on the properties of an unusual type of wave helped pave the way for fiber optic technology, died Dec. 26 in Princeton, N.J., after a series of strokes.
He spent 38 years on the faculty of Princeton University before moving to Rutgers University in 1989. His best-known advance came in the 1960s when he was able to explain mathematically a phenomenon first recorded in 1834 when Scottish scientist John Scott Russell noticed a bump of water traveling through a canal near Edinburgh. On his horse, Russell followed the bump for about two miles.
Usually, waves that collide deform each other. But this other kind, which Dr. Kruskal and collaborator Norman Zabusky came to call "solitans," do not; instead, they pass through one another. Light transmitted over fiber optic cables for communication purposes has the same properties.
Edition: FINAL
Section: LOCAL
Page: 4B
Column: Other Notable Deaths
Martin David Kruskal, a mathematician whose work on the properties of an unusual type of wave helped pave the way for fiber optic technology, died Dec. 26 in Princeton, N.J., after a series of strokes.
He spent 38 years on the faculty of Princeton University before moving to Rutgers University in 1989. His best-known advance came in the 1960s when he was able to explain mathematically a phenomenon first recorded in 1834 when Scottish scientist John Scott Russell noticed a bump of water traveling through a canal near Edinburgh. On his horse, Russell followed the bump for about two miles.
Usually, waves that collide deform each other. But this other kind, which Dr. Kruskal and collaborator Norman Zabusky came to call "solitans," do not; instead, they pass through one another. Light transmitted over fiber optic cables for communication purposes has the same properties.
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