Millennium Magazine_5th Ed

101 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine D eveloping an interest in physics in high school, Dr. John Rider Klauder pursued formal education to give himself a greater challenge. He received a BS from the University of California Berkeley in 1953, MS from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1956 and PhD from Princeton University in 1959. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ukraine. JOHN RIDER KLAUDER, PHD PHYSICS EDUCATOR (RETIRED) University of Florida Forest Hills, NY EDUCATION Upon receiving his undergraduate degree, Dr. Klauder started out as a technical staff member at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in 1953. In 1966, he became head of their theoretical physics research department, and from 1971 to 1976, Dr. Klauder served as head of the solid state spectroscopy research department. Alongside his career in research, Bell Labs allowed sabbaticals in which Dr. Klauder spent time teaching. He has taught at Syracuse University, the University of Bern in Switzerland, and in Trondheim, Norway, as a Lars Onsager professor. Notably, he was the recipient of the Lars Onsager Medal in 2006. For 22 years, Dr. Klauder taught mathematics and physics at the University of Florida, and in 2006, he was named a distinguished professor. Additionally, Dr. Klauder was a consultant with the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Division from 1978 to 1989. One of the highlights of Dr. Klauder’s career was realizing that the usual method of solving problems in quantum physics was incorrect. Dr. Klauder used a novel equation to solve complex problems, where the normal way of doing so left them insolvable. He re-examined the novel equation from 1962 when visiting Moscow, Russia, in 2012, and decided that his method was correct, and therefore, there is a wrong way in the traditional usage and teaching of quantum physics. Dr. Klauder is a past president of the International Association of Mathematical Physics and a member of the American Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and Sigma Xi. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society, as well as an author of numerous scientific works.