H. Pierre Noyes
| H. Pierre Noyes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Henry Pierre Noyes December 10, 1923 Paris, France |
| Died | September 30, 2016 (aged 92) Stanford, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Stanford University, SLAC |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Serber |
| Other academic advisors | Geoffrey Chew |
| Doctoral students | Enrique Ziegler |
| Other notable students | James Lindesay |
| Known for | Bit-string physics |
| Spouse | Mary Noyes |
H. Pierre Noyes (December 10, 1923 – September 30, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist. He was a member of the faculty at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University since 1962. Noyes specialized in several areas of research, including the relativistic few-body problem in nuclear and particle physics; foundations of physics; combinatorial hierarchy; and bit-string physics: a discrete model for masses, coupling constants, and cosmology from first principles.
H. Pierre Noyes was born in 1923 in Paris, France to the American chemist William Albert Noyes, Sr. and Katherine Macy, daughter of Jesse Macy. His older half-brothers were W. Albert Noyes, Jr. and Richard Macy Noyes who both became chemists.
Noyes received his baccalaureate degree in physics (magna cum laude) in 1943 from Harvard University. One of his roommates during this time was Thomas Kuhn, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Before moving on to doctoral studies, Noyes spent a year at the Antenna Group at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and served in the US Navy for two years as an Aviation Electronics Technician Mate.
Noyes earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950 doing research under the direction of Robert Serber with Geoffrey Chew as his advisor. Noyes’ first doctoral problem was pion-pion scattering, followed by a second problem: meson production from proton-deuteron decay. His work under Chew was among the early applications of S-matrix theory.
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