Fereydoon Family (born September 18, 1945) is a leading

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physicist in the field of

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and

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. He is currently

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Professor of Physics and a member of the Emerson Center for Scientific Computation at

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. He is an elected fellow of the

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, (search on year=1990 and institution=Emory University) and a recipient of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society's highest honor, the J.W. Beams Award.

Biography

Family received his B.S. degree in physics from

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in 1968 and his Ph.D. in

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in 1974. He has been a visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the

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and a visiting associate professor of chemistry at

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Publications

Journal articles

He has published 161 scientific papers, almost all of them in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals. The most heavily cited was cited as many as 547 times. The ten most frequently cited are: * Family F, Vicsek T, Scaling of the Active Zone in the Eden Process on Percolation Networks and the Ballistic Deposition Model ''Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and General'' 18 (2): L75-L81 1985' (times cited: 547) *Vicsek T, Family F, Dynamic Scaling for Aggregation of Clusters ''Physical Review Letters'' 52 (19): 1669-1672 1984 (times cited: 289) *Family F, Dynamic Scaling and Phase-Transitions in Interface Growth ''Physica A'' 168 (1): 561-580 Sep 1 1990 (times cited: 259) *Family F, Scaling of Rough Surfaces - Effects of Surface-Diffusion ''Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and General'' 19 (8): L441-L446 Jun 1 1986 (times cited: 252) *Amar g, Family F, Critical Cluster-Size - Island Morphology and Size Distribution in Submonolayer Epitaxial-Growth ''Physical Review Letters'' 74 (11): 2066-2069 Mar 13 1995 (times cited: 213) *Meakin P, Vicsek T, Family F, Dynamic Cluster-Size Distribution in Cluster-Cluster Aggregation - Effects of Cluster Diffusivity ''Physical Review B'' 31 (1): 564-569 1985 (times cited: 206) *Amar J, Family F, Lam P, Dynamic Scaling of the Island-Size Distribution and Percolation in a Model of Submonolayer Molecular-Beam Epitaxy ''Physical Review B'' 50 (12): 8781-8797 Sep 15 1994 (times cited: 175) *Amar J, Family F, Numerical-Solution of A Continuum Equation for Interface Growth in 2+1 Dimensions ''Physical Review A'' 41 (6): 3399-3402 Mar 15 1990 (times cited: 137) *Family F, Meakin P, Scaling of the Droplet-Size Distribution in Vapor-Deposited Thin-Films ''Physical Review Letters'' 61 (4): 428-431 Jul 25 1988 (times Ccitedited: 133) *Family F, Meakin P, Deutch J, Kinetics of Coagulation with Fragmentation - Scaling Behavior and Fluctuations ''Physical Review Letters'' 57 (6): 727-730 Aug 11 1986 (times cited: 127) *Gould H, Family F, Stanley H, Kinetics of Formation of Randomly Branched Aggregates - A Renormalization-Group Approach ''Physical Review Letters'' 50 (9): 686-689 1983 (times cited: 122)

Books on physics

*''Kinetics of Aggregation and Gelation'' (North-Holland, Amsterdam), 1984. (cited 115 times according to Google Scholar) *''Dynamics of Fractal Surfaces'' (World Scientific, Singapore), 1991. (cited 284 times according to Google Scholar) *''Fractal Aspects of Materials'' (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh), 1995. *''Scaling and Disordered Systems'' (World-Scientific, Singapore), 2002. *''Challenges In Computational Statistical Physics In The 21st Century, Proceedings of STATPHYS satellite conference'' (Special Issue of Computer Physics Communications), 2002. *''Dynamics and Friction in the Submicrometer Confining Systems'' (American Chemical Society, Washington, DC), 2004.

References

Physics Computing News
1994. "Information about the Candidates".

External links

Family's homepage

Nanobiology International Conference website

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