John Pasta

John Pasta

John R. Pasta (1918–1984) was an American Computational physicist and computer scientist who is remembered today for the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam experiment, a result much discussed among physicists and researchers in dynamical systems and chaos theory, and as the head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1970.

Read more about John Pasta:  Early Life, 1951-1963, 1964-1984