George Herbert Weiss

George H. Weiss (born February 19, 1930 in New York) is an American mathematician at the National Institutes of Health, known for his work on random walks. He did his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, graduating in 1951, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1958.^[1]

In May 2010 the NIH held a symposium entitled "Mini-Symposium: Random Walks in Biology and Beyond", in honor of Weiss's recent retirement.

Selected publications

Books

• Maradudin, A. A.; Montroll, E. W.; Weiss, G. H. (1963), Theory of Lattice Dynamics in the Harmonic Approximation, Solid State Physics, Academic Press, MR 0154684 .
• Weiss, George H. (1994), Aspects and Applications of the Random Walk, Random Materials and Processes, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, ISBN 0-444-81606-2, MR 1280031 .
• Shmueli, Uri; Weiss, George H. (1995), Introduction to Crystallographic Statistics, International Union of Crystallography Book Series 6, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198559269 .

Research articles

• Kimura, Motoo; Weiss, George H. (1964), "The stepping stone model of population structure and the decrease of genetic correlation with distance", Genetics 49 (4): 561–576, PMC 1210594 .
• Montroll, Elliott W.; Weiss, George H. (1965), "Random walks on lattices. II", Journal of Mathematical Physics 6: 167–181, doi:10.1063/1.1704269, MR 0172344 .

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