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gptkbp:instanceOf
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Physicist
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gptkbp:affiliation
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gptkb:University_of_Chicago
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gptkbp:awards
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gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
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gptkbp:born
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January 15, 1937
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gptkbp:children
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3
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gptkbp:contribution
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gptkb:Kadanoff's_universality_classes
Kadanoff's_work_on_quantum_phase_transitions
Kadanoff's_work_on_statistical_mechanics
Kadanoff's_work_on_turbulence
Kadanoff's_scaling_laws
Kadanoff's_work_on_fractals
Kadanoff's_work_on_nonlinear_dynamics
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gptkbp:died
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October 26, 2022
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:Harvard_University
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gptkbp:fellowship
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gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:Institute_of_Physics
gptkb:American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:American_Physical_Society
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gptkbp:field
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Physics
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Leonard Kadanoff
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Quantum_field_theory
Condensed matter physics
Chaos theory
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Hermann_Weyl
gptkb:Julian_Schwinger
gptkb:Max_Planck
gptkb:Wolfgang_Pauli
gptkb:David_Bohm
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Paul_Dirac
gptkb:Philip_Anderson
gptkb:Lars_Onsager
Erwin Schrödinger
Niels Bohr
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gptkbp:knownFor
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Phase transitions
Statistical physics
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gptkbp:notableFeature
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gptkb:John_Cardy
gptkb:Matthew_Fisher
gptkb:Subir_Sachdev
gptkb:David_R._Nelson
gptkb:Michael_Fisher
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gptkbp:patentDescription
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Theoretical studies of the behavior of matter
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gptkbp:researchFocus
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Renormalization group
Critical phenomena
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Ruth_Kadanoff
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