Richard Lawrence Liboff (December 30, 1931 – March 9, 2014) was an American physicist who authored five books and over 100 other publications in variety of fields, including plasma physics, planetary physics, cosmology, quantum chaos, and quantum billiards.
His advisors were Harold Grad in mathematics (13 moment method) and B. Zumino in physics (TCP theory).
Fulbright Program and Solvay Fellowships supported three sabbatical leaves abroad.
In 1969, he chaired the first International Meeting in Kinetic Theory, sponsored by the NSF and co-chaired by N. Rostoker.
[2][3] Among his publications, two works are of particular note: Richard Liboff is the author of five books, three of which are still available: An earlier edition of the Kinetic Theory text was translated into Russian and an earlier edition of the Quantum Mechanics text was translated into Korean.
"Solution to a New Non-Linear Equation for the Distribution of Charge Carriers in a Semi-conductor", Phys.
Astronomical J, 134, (2007) In Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker (played by Tobey Maguire) is seen dropping some of his books at Columbia University.