John R. Klauder is an American

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 professor of physics and mathematics and author of over 250 published articles on physics.

He graduated from University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science

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. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 where he was a student of John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler

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A former head of the Theoretical Physics

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 and Solid State

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 Spectroscopy Departments of Bell Telephone Laboratories

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, he has been a visiting professor at Rutgers University

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, Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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, and the University of Bern. Since 1988 John Klauder has been a Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Florida

University of Florida

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His recent honors include being inducted as a Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Lars Onsager Professorship and Lars Onsager Medal in 2006 at NTNU

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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 (Norway

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He has also served on the Physics Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation

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 and been Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics

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, President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics

International Association of Mathematical Physics

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, Associate Secretary-General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

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, and has authored over 250 articles published in international journals.

His latest trip is the 5th Jagna International Workshop on the Stochastic and Quantum Dynamics Processes of Biomolecular Systems held in Jagna, Bohol, Philippines on January 3–5, 2008, where he presented his "Selecta from a life-long obsession with path integrals".