David Shoenberg

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David Shoenberg , MBE FRS , (born January 4, 1911 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † March 10, 2004 ) was a British physicist .

He was the son of Isaac Shoenberg . In 1914 the family emigrated to Great Britain . Shoenberg received his education at the Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he received his PhD in 1935. He worked in the Royal Society Moon Laboratory , which was part of the Cavendish Laboratory . There he learned from James Chadwick and Pyotr Leonidowitsch Kapiza , with whom he stayed in correspondence in 1934 after his return to the Soviet Union.

He was professor of physics at the University of Cambridge and head of the low temperature physics group at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1973 to 1978 and eventually retired . He was also a Life Fellow at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge.

Shoenberg was particularly concerned with solid state physics and low temperature physics . He published work on the De Haas van Alphen effect for the experimental determination of Fermi surfaces , magnetism , superconductivity in uranium and the determination of the London penetration depth . As early as 1938 he published a textbook on superconductivity, which was edited again in 1952.

He supervised the doctoral theses of Brian Pippard and John Hulm, who later discovered the A15 superconductors .

He received his MBE in 1944 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953 . In 1964 he received the Fritz London Memorial Award . In 1982 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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SURNAME Shoenberg, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2004