Fred Cummings
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Fred Cummings (Frederick W. Cummings) is a theoretical physicist at University of California, Riverside faculty. He specialises in cavity quantum electrodynamics, many-body theory and non-linear dynamics.
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Cummings obtained his PhD. with Professor Edwin Thompson Jaynes at Stanford University in 1962. After thirty years at University of California Riverside Physics department, Cummings became emeritus professor in 1993. He now lives in Marin County. Some of his important discoveries include the "Jaynes-Cummings model", one atom interacting with a quantized e-m field; as well as the extension of this to N atoms, the "Tavis-Cummings model". Cummmings supervised the PhD research of Jack Sarfatti. In the last twenty years his interest has turned to questions of biophysics of development and evolution.
