Meet the Piano Doctor

Chris Long studied piano tuning in 1973 with the late Havard Kitchens.
He holds a Ph. D. in physics and has taught university students and graduate students for many years.
He has authored or co-authored research papers, most published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
He analysed approximate commesurability in repeating systems.
He holds a U.S. patent on a novel musical instrument which has keys arranged in the circle of fifths. The instrument was designed to play in just intonation in all the keys.
He is the inventor of the board game TriDots and author of a computer realisation of it.
His knowledge of physics and mathematics helps him understand the workings of the piano and the equally tempered musical scale.
He enjoys playing music, growing vegetables, and swimming.

Publications
    Theory of Magnetic-Moment-Jump Phase Transition With Application
to UP, Chris Long and Yung-Li Wang, Phys. Rev. 3, 1656 (1971).

    Measurement of the Spin-Dependent Part of the Scattering Amplitude
of Slow Neutrons on 19F Using a Polarized Beam and a Polarized Target, A.
Abragam, G.L. Bacchella, C. Long, P. Meriel, J. Peisvaux, and M. Pinot,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 28, 806 (1972).

    Superconducting Ring Fluxmeters, Chris Long, The Physics Teacher,
13, 532 (1975).

    Quadrupole and Magnetic Resonance of Linear Chain RbFeCl3 and
CsFeCl3, W.B. Euler, C. Long, W.G. Moulton and B.B. Garrett, Jour. Mag.
Res. 32, 23 (1978).

    Chlorine and Rubidium Resonances in RbNiCl3, W.B. Euler, C. Long,
W.G. Moulton and B.B. Garrett, Jour. Mag. Res. 32, 33 (1978).

    Two Methods for Measuring the Variation of theGravitational
Parameter, G, Using Superconducting Technology, Leopold Halpern and
Chris Long, On the Measurement of Cosmological Variations of the
Gravitational Constant, Halpern, ed. 87. University Presses of Florida, Pub.
(1978).

    U.S. Patent No. 4,241,636, Electronic Musical Instrument,
Christopher Long, (1980).

    Bound States of a Relativistic Quark Confined by a Vector Potential,
Chris Long and D. Robson, Phys. Rev. D. 27, 644 (1983).

    The Masses of the Vector Mesons: A Pattern in the Data, Chris Long,
Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 28, 751 (1983).

    The Numerical Solution of Salpeter's Equation, Chris Long, Phys. Rev.
D, 1970 (1984).

    Scaling of the 0++ Glueball Mass in SU(N) Hamiltonian Lattice
Calculations, S.A. Chin, Chris Long and D. Robson, Phys. Rev. Letts. 57,
2779 (1986).

    The Three-Nucleon Potential in a QCD Based Model, Chris Long and
D. Robson, Nucl. Phys. A474, 627 (1987).

    Isoscalar-Meson Mass Shift Due to the Two-GluonIntermediate State,
W.S. Jaronski and Chris Long, Phys. Rev. D37, 1957 (1988).

    The Tensor-Scalar Glueball Mass Ratio in Lattice Gauge Theory, S.A.
Chin, Chris Long, and D. Robson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1467 (1988).

    Improved Variational Wavefunctions for SU(3) Hamiltonian Lattice
Gauge Theory, Chris Long, D. Robson and S.A. Chin, Phys. Rev. D37, 3006
(1988).

    Exact Ground State Properties of SU(3) Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge
Theory, S.A. Chin, Chris Long, and D. Robson, Phys. Rev. D37, 3001
(1988).

    Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Calculations for SU(N) Gauge Groups, D.
Robson, Chris Long and Siu A. Chin in Relativistic Many-Body Physics,
B.C. Clark et al., eds. Singapore; World Scientific, 31 (1989).

    Trajectory and Fate Analysis of the Tampa Oil Spill of August 1993,
Cekerge, H. M., Convery, K., Sollohub, J. and Long, C. E., prepared for
Marine Spill Response Corporation, (1993).

    Oil Spill Modeling Using Parallel Computations, Cekerge, H. M.,
Giammona, C. P., Berlin, J. Long, C., Koch, M. and Jamail, R., Spill Science
and Technology Bullitin, 1 (1), 61-68, (1994).

    Comparison of a Personal Computer Oil Spill Model with a
Supercomputer Model, Cekerge, H. M., Convery, K., Long, C., Koch, M.,
Giammona, C. P., Jamail, R., Proc. of Environmental Modelling Seminar,
Trondheim, Norway, August 17-19, (1994).

    State-Of-Art Techniques in Oil Spill Modeling, Cekerge, H. M., Koch,
M., Long, C., Giammona, C. P., Binkley, K., Englehardt, R., Jamail R., Proc.
of the International Oil Spill Conference, Long Beach, California, Feb. 27 -
March 2, (1995).

    Progress in Characterizing the Route to Geostrophic Turbulence and
Redesigning Thermally-Driven Rotating Annulus Experiments, Pfeffer, R. L.,
Applequist, S., Kung, R., Long, C., and Buzyna, G.,
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (1997) 9:253-267.

    Cross-beta Order and Diversity in Nanocrystals of an Amyloid-forming Peptide,
Ruben Diaz-Avalos, Chris Long, Eric Fontano, Melinda Balbirnie, Robert Grothe,
David Eisenberg, and Donald L. D. Caspar, Journal of Molecular Biology
(2003) 330, 1165-1175.

    Cross-beta structure of an amyloid forming peptide studied by electron
nanocrystallography. Diaz-Avalos, R., Long, C., Fontano, E., Balbirnie, M.,
Grothe, R., Eisenberg, D., and Caspar, D.,
Fiber Diffraction Review (2003) 11, 79-86.

ï¿½ 2018. Christopher E. Long