Robert Adair (masanin kimiyyar lissafi)

Robert Kemp Adair (14 ga Agusta, 1924 - 28 ga Satumba, 2020) masanin kimiyyar lissafi ne ɗan ƙasar Amurka. Daga ƙarshe ya riƙe muƙamin Farfesa Sterling na Physics a Jami'ar Yale .   

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
Adair ya yi aiki a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Turai bayan ya yi aikin sa kai a Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta Purple Heart and Bronze star . Bayan ya sami digirin digirgir a fannin gwajin kimiyyar nukiliya a Jami'ar Wisconsin, ya yi aiki a Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) da ke Long Island. A shekarar 1959 ya shiga jami'ar Yale, inda ya zama shugaban Sashen Kimiyyar Lissafi kuma darektan Sashen Kimiyyar Jiki. An zaɓe shi zuwa Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Ƙasa a 1976 inda ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban Sashen Kimiyyar Jiki 1986-1989 da kuma Shugaban Ajin Kimiyyar Jiki 1991-1994. An zaɓe shi a matsayin Fellow na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a 1997,  bayan aiki mai kyau a cikin, tsakanin sauran fannoni da yawa na kimiyyar lissafi, raunin hulɗa ( Kaon ) kimiyyar lissafi a Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) da ke BNL.

Daga baya, a lokacin da ya yi ritaya, ya yi nazari kan tasirin filayen lantarki masu ƙarancin mitoci (marasa ƙarfi) akan lafiyar ɗan adam da kuma wasu ayyuka, wanda ya yi aiki a Kwamitin Ƙungiyar Jiki ta Amurka (APS) da aka kafa don bincika Sanarwar APS kan Dumamar Duniya a 2007, wanda ba tare da takaddama ta ciki ba. Ya mutu a watan Satumba na 2020 yana da shekaru 96. 

 Littattafai da ƙwallon baseball 
Adair, memba ne na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Ƙasa, an san shi da rubuta littafin The Physics of Baseball   da kuma wani takarda mai taken The Crack of the Bat: The Acoustics of the Bat Hitting the Ball .  Karatunsa a wasan baseball ya samo asali ne daga buƙatar tsohon Shugaban Yale A. Bartlett Giamatti don ya fayyace mahimmancin kimiyya na toshe jemage, jika ƙwallo da sauran ayyukan wasan baseball iri ɗaya.

Da yawa daga cikin gwaje-gwajen da suka samar da hujjojin lura waɗanda suka zama tushen sakamakon Adair game da kimiyyar wasan baseball, ƙwararren masani kan da'irar fasaha a Sashen Nazarin Lissafi na Ƙasa na Brookhaven, Richard Larsen, ne ya gudanar da su, wanda kuma ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga yawancin shirye-shiryen gwaji da Adair ke jagoranta a BNL AGS.

Wani littafi daga Adair shine The Great Design: Particles, Fields and Creation .

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutattun 2020
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1924