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Barry Malcolm McCoy (born 14 December 1940 inTrenton, New Jersey)[1] is an American physicist, known for his contributions to classical statistical mechanics, integrable models, and conformal field theories.
He earned aB.Sc. fromCalifornia Institute of Technology (1963), and aPh.D. fromHarvard University (1967) with the thesisSpin Correlations of the Two Dimensional Ising Model advised byTai Tsun Wu.[2] The two of them also wrote the bookThe Two Dimensional Ising Model (Harvard University Press, 1973).
He then joined the institute for theoretical physics atState University of New York at Stony Brook (1967), where he has been since, now as a distinguished professor. McCoy was a visiting scholar at theResearch Institute for Mathematical Sciences inKyoto several times (first in 1980), theInstitute Henri Poincaré, and theAustralian National University.
In 1998 McCoy, together with Alexander Berkovich, was an invited speaker of theInternational Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[3] With colleaguesTai Tsun Wu andAlexander Zamolodchikov, he was awarded theDannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics 1999, for "his work on thestatistical mechanics of theIsing model,including boundary critical phenomena, randomly layered systems which have Griffiths-McCoy singularities, the Painleve representation of the two point function, quadratic difference equations for the n-point functions, and the Ising model in a magnetic field. Dr. McCoy has in addition made contributions to the study of quantum spin chains, and the Fermionic representations of conformal field theory, and has been a co-discoverer of the integrable chiral Potts model. He has also worked extensively in quantum field theory and more recently has become known for his mathematical work in nonlinear differential equations and the theory of Rogers-Ramanujan identities".[4]
His doctoral students includeRinat Kedem,Anne Schilling, andCraig Tracy.
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