User:Jean Pierre Boon

Jean Pierre Boon is a Belgian scientist, internationally credited for his work on Molecular Hydrodynamics which established the bridge between molecular dynamics and hydrodynamics. Since 1967 he has been affiliated with the University of Brussels as Professor and FNRS Research Director.

His publications cover various fields ranging from Transport Phenomena in liquids and gases, the autocorrelation function formalism, the generalised Fokker-Plank equation, and the theory and simulation of lattice gas automata.

He co-authored the well-known monograph "Molecular Hydrodynamics" by Boon and Yip (McGraw Hill, 1981, republished in paperback by Dover Publ. 2001). With J.P. Rivet he published a new monograph "Lattice Gas Hydrodynamics" (Cambridge U.P, 2001, republished in paperback version 2005).

He also published articles on Music Dynamics and organised two international meetings on the subject of "Physics and Music" gathering Physicists and Musicians, and co-edited "Re-decouvrir le temps" (A. Nysenholc and J.P. Boon)

Pr Boon has been holding visiting and teaching appointments with several academic and non-academic institutions, such as the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Telephone Laboratories and the University of Nice, France. He was also instrumental in the organisation of important workshops and conferences, a.o. the 2016 Solvay Workshop "Bridging the gaps at the PCB interfaces - Multiscale modelling in Physics, Chemistry, Biology.

He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2017.

For bibliographical references see: //homepages.ulb.ac.be/~jpboon/