Arthur H. Rosenfeld
Arthur "Art" Hinton Rosenfeld (born June 22, 1926 in Birmingham (Alabama) ; † January 27, 2017 in Berkeley (California) ) was an American physicist. He is known as the initiator of energy efficiency programs in the USA.
Rosenfeld graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree in 1944, served two years in the US Navy and received his doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago in 1954 . There he was a pupil of Enrico Fermi and gave his lectures on nuclear physics with others. He went to the University of California, Berkeley , where he became a professor and retired in 1995. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he was in the elementary particle physics group of Luis Walter Alvarez in the 1950s . In 1964 he was one of the founders of the Particle Data Group , which he headed from 1964 to 1975. At that time he also dealt a lot with computer physics and was acting chairman of the computer science department in 1967/68.
After the 1973 oil crisis, he turned to questions about the efficient use of energy, particularly in the USA, and headed the LBNL's program for energy-efficient building from 1975 to 1986 and the Center for Building Science from 1986 to 1994. In 1988 he was the founder of the California Institute for Energy Efficiency.
His research influenced laws in California for energy conservation in building from the 1970s. The fact that per capita electricity consumption in California remained almost the same from 1973 to 2006, while it increased by half in the rest of the United States is known as the Rosenfeld Effect and is attributed to the energy-saving efforts he initiated in California. At his institute, computer models were developed for this, and energy-saving window coatings and electronics for energy savings in fluorescent lamps, which have become essential components of compact fluorescent lamps.
In 1978 he was visiting professor at the College de France. In 1983 he received an honorary doctorate from Durham University. In 2011 he received the National Medal of Technology and in 1986 received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award . He was a fellow of the American Physical Society . He received the DOE's Carnot Award for Energy Efficiency in 1993, the Russian President's Global Energy Prize in 2011 and the Tang Prize for Sustainable Development in 2016. In 2001 he received the University of California Berkeley Citation. In 2005 he received the Enrico Fermi Prize . In 2010 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering .
From its inception through 1973, he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Physics. He is a co-founder of the American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (ACEEE) and Institute for Energy and the Environment at the University of California (CIEE).
In 1955 he married Roselyn Bernheim with whom he had three children.
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- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Published by the University of Chicago Press in 1950
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenfeld, Arthur H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenfeld, Art; Rosenfeld, Arthur Hinton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham, Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 2017 |
| Place of death | Berkeley, California |