The 69-year-old Simons, a mathematical physicist by training who served as a code breaker during the Vietnam War, founded Long Island's Renaissance in 1982 and runs two hedge funds, Medallion and Renaissance Institutional, which invest primarily in common stocks.
A mathematical physicist trained by van der Waals, he had a particular interest in mechanics and thermodynamics.
LAZARUS--Roger B., a mathematical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 35 years, died peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on January 27 in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
"I thought that the noblest calling was to be a mathematical physicist".
Jennifer Chayes, a mathematical physicist who leads Microsoft's research center in Cambridge, Mass., will also manage the New York lab.
"I regard quants to be the good guys," said Eric R. Weinstein, a mathematical physicist who runs the Natron Group, a hedge fund in Manhattan.
Hodges, a mathematical physicist and one-time member of the Gay Liberation Front, came across Turing's name in the late 1960s as a student.
In 1958 L.S. Penrose, a British geneticist, and his son Roger Penrose, a mathematical physicist, introduced the undecidable figures called strange loops.
Even when he was writing about physiology, Helmholtz's vocation as a mathematical physicist was apparent.
As a mathematical physicist, he appreciated the deep mystery of a world that could be described by equations.
