Barry Simon

Barry Simon
Simon in 2015
Born	16 April 1946 (1946-04-16) (age 78) New York City
Alma mater	AB, Harvard University PhD, Princeton University
Title	Professor
Spouse	Martha Simon
Awards	Henri Poincaré Prize (2012) Bolyai Prize (2015) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2016) Dannie Heineman Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Institutions	Princeton University Caltech
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Wightman
Doctoral students	Percy Deift Alexander Kiselev Antti Kupiainen

Barry Martin Simon (born 16 April 1946) is an American mathematical physicist and was the IBM professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech,^[1] known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (particularly Schrödinger operators), including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. He has authored more than 400 publications on mathematics and physics.

His work has focused on broad areas of mathematical physics and analysis covering: quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, Brownian motion, random matrix theory, general nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (including N-body systems and resonances), nonrelativistic quantum mechanics in electric and magnetic fields, the semi-classical limit, the singular continuous spectrum, random and ergodic Schrödinger operators, orthogonal polynomials, and non-selfadjoint spectral theory.^[2]