Per Bak

Per Bak
Born(1948-12-08)8 December 1948
Brønderslev, Denmark
Died16 October 2002(2002-10-16) (aged 53)
Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Alma materTechnical University of Denmark
Risø National Laboratory
Known forSelf-organized criticality
Bak–Sneppen model
Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld sandpile
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsBrookhaven National Laboratory
University of Copenhagen
Santa Fe Institute
Niels Bohr Institute
Imperial College London

Per Bak (8 December 1948 – 16 October 2002) was a Danish theoretical physicist who coauthored the 1987 academic paper that coined the term "self-organized criticality."


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