John Pasta

Computer Scientist

1918 – 1984

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Who was John Pasta?

John R. Pasta was an American Computational physicist and computer scientist who is remembered today for the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam experiment, a result much discussed among physicists and researchers in dynamical systems and chaos theory, and as the head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1970.

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Born
1918
New York City
Also known as
  • John R. Pasta
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • New York University
Employment
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Lived in
  • United States of America
Died
1984
Chicago

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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