John Pasta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Pasta

physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1918

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1984

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John R.
Pasta (October 22, 1918 – June 5, 1981) was an American computational physicist and computer scientist who is remembered today for the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou experiment, the result of which was much discussed among physicists and researchers in the fields of dynamical systems and chaos theory, and as the head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1970.