Per Bak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Per Bak

Danish physicist

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1948

Place of Birth: Denmark

Date of Death: 16-Oct-2002

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Per Bak (December 8, 1948 – October 16, 2002) was a Danish theoretical physicist who coauthored the 1987 academic paper that coined the term "self-organized criticality."