Loup Verlet
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Loup Verlet (1931-) (pronounced: loo vuhr-LEH, rhymes with Chevrolet) is a French physicist who pioneered the computer simulation of molecular dynamics models. In a famous 1967 paper he developed what is now known as Verlet integration (a method for the numerical integration of equations of motion) and the Verlet list (a data structure that keeps track of each molecule's immediate neighbors in order to speed computer calculations of molecule to molecule interactions).
He has also written about the history of science. In his book "La Malle de Newton" (1993) he argued that Isaac Newton was an important transition figure between the medieval, mainly religious, world of ideas and the modern scientific way of analyzing physical problems. Newton had a foot in both worlds, as shown by the fact that his writings are concerned with mathematics and physics, but also theology and alchemy, a combination that seems bizarre to us today.
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[edit] References
- L. Verlet: "Computer Experiments on Classical Fluids", PhysRev. Vol. 159, No. 98, July 1967
- P. Zegeling: "Molecular modelling and computation (handout on the Verlet method)", 1995 in Dutch (includes a photograph of Mr. Verlet)
