Frederick Williams Cummings (November 21, 1931 - January 31, 2019)[1] was an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of California, Riverside.
He specialised in cavity quantum electrodynamics, many-body theory, non-linear dynamics, and biophysics.
While finishing his thesis, Cummings worked at the Aeronutronic Research Labs, Ford Motor Co. in Newport Beach, California from 1960 to 1963.
The revival probabilities predicted by Jaynes–Cumming model were first experimentally demonstrated in 1987 by Gerhard Rempe, Herbert Walther, and Norbert Klein.
[citation needed] After thirty years at UCR Physics department, Cummings became emeritus professor in 1993.