{{Short description|American physicist (1938–2021)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} '''Donald J. Kouri''' (July 25, 1938 – February 9, 2021) was an American physicist and Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uh.edu/nsm/physics/people/profiles/donald-kouri/ |title=Donald Kouri |publisher=uh.edu |access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xWRcn_0AAAAJ&hl=en |title=Donald Kouri |access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> He completed his PhD from University of Wisconsin in 1965.
== Research interest == Donald J Kouri carried out research in the fundamental implications of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the resulting applications and also generalized coherent states.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/nsm/physics/people/profiles/donald-kouri/|title=Faculty Profile: Donald J Kouri}}</ref> He has also pioneered the research in quantum theory of atomic collisions and molecular collisions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/ia/farfel/pages/dKouri.html|title=Farfel Recipient: Don Kouri}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=A tribute to Donald J. Kouri|journal = The Journal of Physical Chemistry A|volume = 107|issue = 37|pages = 7073–7075|doi=10.1021/jp030606k|year = 2003}}</ref>
He taught and carried out research in Israel and Germany, and participated in international conferences throughout the world. Kouri died on February 9, 2021, at the age of 82.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Memoriam: Professor Donald J. Kouri - University of Houston |url=https://www.uh.edu/nsm/physics/news-events/stories/2021/0222-kouri-memoriam.php |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=www.uh.edu}}</ref>
== Awards == * 2010: National Science Foundation's Special Creativity Award * 1978: Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
== Works == * Kouri, Donald J (2015) ''Quantum Scattering Theory.'' World Scientific Publishing Company * Kouri, Donald J and Shi, Zhouoer (2001) ''Lagrange Wavelets for Signal Processing''. IEEE * Kouri, Donald J. (1991). ''Theoretical studies of molecular collisions''. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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