Fredrik "Fred" Zachariasen (1931–1999) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his collaborative work with Murray Gell-Mann,[3] Sidney Drell,[4] and others.
[citation needed] Fredrik Zachariasen graduated in 1951 with BS in physics from the University of Chicago[5] and in January 1956 with PhD from Caltech with thesis Photodisintegration of the deuteron.
He was a founding member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group, where he worked with Walter Munk on acoustic detection of submarines.
They have calculated flux tubes, static quark potentials, temperature dependent effects and many other quantities in the tree approximation.
[8]Fredrik Zachariasen's wife Nancy worked as a staff member at the library at the California Institute of Technology.