Leopoldo García-Colin Scherer, Mexican physicist (Ciudad de Mexico 27 November 1930 – Ciudad de Mexico 08 October 2012)
From German descent
Authored 237 papers and 17 books on chemical physics and statistical physics
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
With A.L. Garcia-Perciante & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Benedicks effect in a relativistic simple fluid. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 38:141, 2013
With A.L. Garcia-Perciante & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. On the nature of the so-called generic instabilities in dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics. Gen. Relat. Grav. 41(7):1645-54,
With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo & A.L. García-Perciante. Relativistic transport theory for simple fluids to first order in the gradients. Physica A. Stat. Mech. Appl. (2008)
With E. Hernandez-Lemus. Non-equilibrium critical behavior: an extended irreversible thermodynamics approach. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 31(4):397-417, 2006
With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Jeans instability in the linearized Burnett regime. Physica A 347:375, 2005
With P. Goldstein. On the validity of Onsager’s relation in an inert dilute gas mixture. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. (2005)
With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Hydrodynamic time correlate functions in the presence of a gravitational field. Physica A 237:213, 2003
With O. Resendis-Antonio & H. Larralde. A statistical model of DNA denaturation. Physica A 318:435, 2002
With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. On the gravitational instability of a dissipative medium. Class. Quant. Gravity 19(8): 2171-6, 2002
With F.J. Uribe, R.M. Velasco & E. Díaz Herrera. Shock wave profiles in the Burnett approximation. Phys. Review E 62:6648, 2000
With F.J. Uribe & R.M. Velasco. Bobylev’s instability. Phys. Review E 62:5835, 2000
With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. On the cosmological implications of irreversible thermodynamics. J. Gen. Relat. Grav. 31:781, 1999
Remarks on the glass transition. Rev. Mex. Fisica 45, 1999
With F.J. Uribe & R.M. Velasco. Burnett description of Strong shock waves. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81:2044, 1998
With S. Godoy. Nonvalidity of the telegrapher’s diffusion equation in two and three dimensions for crystalline solids. Physics Review E 55(3):2127-31, 1997
With J. Galvão Ramos & A.R. Vasconcellos. A thermo-hydrodynamics theory based on informational statistical thermodynamics. Braz. J. Physics 27(4):585-604, 1997
With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Relativistic Navier-Stokes equations in the Meixner-Prigogine scheme. Physica A 240:480, 1997
With S. Godoy. From the quantum random walk to classical mesoscopic diffusion in crystalline solids. Phys. Rev. E 53:5779, 1996
With M.A. Olivares-Robles. On different derivations of telegrapher’s type kinetic equations. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 21:361-79, 1996
With P. Goldstein. Transport processes in a viscoelastic binary mixture. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 19:170-83, 1994
With R.M. Velasco. Viscoheat coupling in a binasry mixture. J. Phys. A Math. Gen. 24(5), 1991
With F.J. Uribe. Extended irreversible thermodynamics beyond the linear regime. A critical overview. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 16:89-128, 1991
Extended non-equilibrium thermodynamics: scope and limitations. Rev. Mex. Fisica 34:344, 1988
With R.F. Rodríguez. On the relationship between extended thermodynamism and the wave approach to thermodynamics. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn.13:81-94, 1988
With M. López de Haro. The Burnett equations in extended irreversible thermodynamics. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 7:95, 1982
With S.M.T. de la Selva. The bulk viscosity and the chemical relaxation measurements within the context of thermodynamics (1980)
With J. Peretti. Evaluation de la function de distribution binaire d’un gaz quantique imparfait. Methode Générale. Compt. Rendus 248:1625, 1959
With R.F. Rodríguez, M. López de Haro, J. Casas-Vazquez & D. Jon. On the foundations of extended irreversible thermodynamics. J. Stat. Phys. 37:465-84,
With A.L. Garcia-Perciante & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Rayleigh-Brillouin spectrum in special relativistic hydrodynamics
HONOURS
World champion of Jai Alai (1950)
Physics Prize, University of Maryland (1956-7)
Visiting Profesor, J.D. Van der Waals Chair, Amsterdam University (1976)