Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger


Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger was an American physicist well known for his contributions to the theory of interacting electrons in one-dimensional metals and the Fermi-liquid theory. He received his BS and PhD in physics from MIT in 1947. His brother was the physical chemist Lionel Luttinger and his nephew is the mathematician Karl Murad Luttinger.

Some publications

Note: This obituary is reprinted with permission in Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 103, Nos. 3/4, pp. 413–415 .