Marvin Chester
Marvin Chester was a UCLA emeritus professor of Physics who specialized in quantum mechanics. After receiving his B.S. undergraduate degree from the City College of New York in 1952, he studied under Richard Feynman and John R. Pellam at California [Institute of Technology] where he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1961. Thereafter he spent the following 31 years as a faculty member in the Physics department at UCLA.
Physics
Dr. Chester is perhaps best known for his text book for student physicists called Primer of Quantum Mechanics which connects the mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics directly to its philosophical underpinnings.Among his more substantial contributions to the field, he predicted and demonstrated a Bernoulli Effect in the electron gas.
He is known for playing with and challenging the formal constructs of the scientific publication. One example of this can be found in An experiment regarding the wave function of superfluid helium; A published technical description of an experiment to detect the diffraction, because of its order parameter wave function property, of bulk superfluid helium flow through a grating - written in rhymed verse.