Eugene Feenberg

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Eugene Feenberg (born October 6, 1906 in Fort Smith , Texas , † November 7, 1977 ) was an American physicist who dealt with quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.

biography

Feenberg studied physics and mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin from 1926 to 1929 and then went to Harvard University to do a doctorate with Edwin Kemble . Between 1931 and 1933 he was on a scholarship to study in Europe, with Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich, Enrico Fermi in Rome (where he also met Ettore Majorana ), Wolfgang Pauli in Zurich and Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig. In 1933 he received his doctorate at Kemble in Harvard on the quantum theory of the scattering of slow electrons on neutral atoms. Then he was an instructor at Harvard, where he dealt with nuclear physics. From 1935 he was at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he worked with Gregory Breit on the charge independence of nuclear forces and Eugene Paul Wigner on the core structure of light p-shell cores. From 1936 to 1938 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study , where he worked with Melba Phillips . After that he was on Washington Square College of New York University , where he was an associate professor. During World War II he worked for the Sperry Gyroscope Company on radar tubes (theory of the klystron ).

In 1946 he became associate professor and finally professor at Washington University in St. Louis , where he worked on the then new shell model of the cores in the 1950s. In 1964 he became Wayman Crow Professor of Physics there. In 1975 he retired. He was visiting professor at Princeton University (1953/4), at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1969) and in Mexico City (1974).

In 1941 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1975 he was accepted into the National Academy of Sciences.

Fonts

  • with George Edward Pake Notes on the Quantum Theory of Angular Momentum , Addison-Wesley, 1953, 1958 Stanford University Press, 1959, Dover, 1999
  • Shell Theory of the Nucleus , Princeton University, 1955
  • Theory of Quantum Fluids , Academic Press, 1967, 1969

Honors

In 1983 the "International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories" founded the Feenberg Award in memory of Feenberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Breit, Feenberg The possibility of the same form of specific interaction for all nuclear particles , Phys. Rev., Vol. 50, 1936, p. 850
  2. ↑ Wigner, Feenberg On the structure of the nuclei between helium and oxygen , Phys. Rev., Vol. 51, 1937, p. 95. In 1942, he and Wigner published a review article on symmetry principles in nuclear physics: Symmetry properties of nuclear levels , Rep. Prog. Phys., Vol. 8, 1942, p. 274
  3. ↑ Phillips, Feenberg On the structure of light nuclei , Phys. Rev., Vol. 51, 1937, p. 597
  4. ^ Feenberg Medal
personal data
SURNAME Feenberg, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Smith , Texas
DATE OF DEATH November 7th 1977