Norman Zabusky

Norman J. Zabusky
Zabusky with images and space-time diagrams (2005)
Born	(1929-01-04)January 4, 1929 Brooklyn, New York
Died	February 5, 2018(2018-02-05) (aged 89)[3] Beer Sheva, Israel
Alma mater	City College of New York Massachusetts Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology
Known for	Theory and simulation of solitons; visiometrics
Awards	2003: Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, "For pioneering and enduring contributions in nonlinear and vortex physics and computational fluid dynamics, including: the soliton; contour dynamics and V-states for 2D flows; vortex projectiles for accelerated inhomogeneous flows; and visiometrics for reduced modeling.”[1] 1986: Potts Medal of the Franklin Institute for the discovery of the soliton.[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Fluid dynamics and Waves; Computational fluid dynamics
Institutions	Weizmann Institute of Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Emeritus
Doctoral advisor	Milton S. Plesset and Leverett Davis

Norman J. Zabusky was an American physicist, who is noted for the discovery of the soliton in the Korteweg–de Vries equation, in work completed with Martin Kruskal. This result early in his career was followed by an extensive body of work in computational fluid dynamics, which led him in the latter years of his career to an examination of the importance of visualization in this field. In fact, he coined the term visiometrics to describe the process of using computer-aided visualization to guide one towards quantitative results.