Donald Ginsberg
Donald Maurice Ginsberg , also Donald M. Ginsberg (born November 19, 1933 in Chicago , † May 7, 2007 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American physicist .
Life
Ginsberg first studied humanities at the University of Chicago ; After graduating in 1952, he made a bachelor's degree in physics in 1955 and his master 's degree in 1956 . He received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960 . He was a research fellow from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1960 to 1962 and 1962 to 1964 . In 1960 he did his postdoctoral fellowship at the National Science Foundation at Cambridge University . In 1959 he became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1996 he retired .
He was accepted as a full member of the American Physical Society . He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1998 he was honored with the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize .
Act
Donald Ginsberg became known for his research on superconductors , in particular the production of YBCO , a group of superconductors with an unusually high transition temperature at 90 K.
His five-volume work "Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors" is a standard work for physicists, chemists and materials scientists.
Fonts
- Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors. Volume I, World Scientific Publishing 1989, ISBN 9971-5-0683-1 ; Volume II, World Scientific Publishing 1990, ISBN 981-02-0190-7 ; Volume III, World Scientific Publishing 1992, ISBN 981-02-0874-X ; Volume IV, World Scientific Publishing 1994, ISBN 981-02-1637-8 ; Volume V, World Scientific Publishing 1996, ISBN 981-02-2464-8
- Sunbeam's case. AuthorHouse 2002, ISBN 1-4033-2337-2
- At the edge of a dream. AuthorHouse 2006, ISBN 1-4259-7516-X
Web links
- Jeremy Pearce: Donald M. Ginsberg, 73, Expert in the Working of Superconductors, Is Dead. In: New York Times . May 19, 2007
- Literature by and about Donald Ginsberg in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ginsberg, Donald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ginsberg, Donald Maurice (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 2007 |
| Place of death | Urbana , Illinois |