Leonard Eisenbud

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Leonard "Leon" Eisenbud (born August 3, 1913 in Elizabeth , New Jersey , † November 13, 2004 in Haverford , Pennsylvania ) was an American theoretical physicist .

Life

Eisenbud studied at Union College in New York with a bachelor's degree in 1935, was a year 1940/1941 at the Institute for Advanced Study , worked during World War II in radar research at the Radiation Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1943-1946) and was 1948 PhD in theoretical physics with Eugene Wigner at Princeton University . Struggling to find academic employment during the McCarthy era , he was with the Bartol Research Foundation in Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1958 . In 1958 he went to the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) as a professor , where he helped to build up the physics faculty. He was there from 1958 to 1962 and 1968/69 head of the faculty. In 1983 he retired.

Eisenbud was a friend of Paul Erdős . He wrote an introduction to nuclear physics with Wigner.

He is the father of mathematician David Eisenbud . The Eisenbud Lectures at Brandeis University are named after him (and donated by him). Eisenbud was a fellow of the American Physical Society .

Eisenbud Prize

The Eisenbud Prize of the American Mathematical Society is named after him. It has been awarded every three years since 2008 for work in the intersection of mathematics and physics and is endowed with 5000 dollars. The publication must be from the last six years.

Prize winners were:

Fonts

  • with Eugene Wigner Nuclear Structure, Princeton University Press 1958.
    • German translation: Introduction to nuclear physics, BI university handbooks 1961.
  • Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Van Nostrand Reinhold 1971, AMS Chelsea Publ. 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ^ Notices AMS, Eisenbud Prize 2011 for Herbert Spohn (PDF), with a biography of Eisenbud.
  3. ^ Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics at the American Mathematical Society (ams.org), accessed November 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenbud, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisenbud, Leon (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Elizabeth , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2004
Place of death Haverford , Pennsylvania