Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove , née Aisenberg, (born February 13, 1926 in Berlin ; † August 8, 2012 ) was an American experimental nuclear physicist.
Ajzenberg-Selove came to the USA with her family in 1940 as a Jewish refugee from Europe (the family emigrated from Germany to Paris in 1930 , after the German occupation from France to Portugal ). She studied at the University of Michigan (Bachelor in 1946), initially with the goal of becoming an engineer. She then switched to physics after taking courses at Columbia University and in 1949 a summer stay in the Swiss Alps studying cosmic radiation. She studied at the University of Wisconsin , where she did her Masters in 1949 and received her PhD in 1952. She then was a lecturer at Smith College (of which she received an honorary doctorate in 1995) and a visiting fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1953 she became an assistant professor at Boston University and an associate professor at Haverford College in 1956 , where she became a professor in 1962 and was on several occasions on the physics faculty. From 1973 she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania .
She dealt mainly with nuclear spectroscopy of light nuclei and edited corresponding reviews with Thomas Lauritsen - with whom she first worked as a post-doctoral student at Caltech - and others (they appear annually in the journal Nuclear Physics A ).
In 1955 she married Walter Selove. She was a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (on whose governing council she was from 1974 to 1980). In 1965/1966 she was a Guggenheim Fellow. 1973/1974 she headed the nuclear physics department of the APS and from 1978 to 1981 the commission for nuclear physics of the IUPAP . In 1999 she received the Nicholson Medal of the APS and in 2007 the National Medal of Science .
She received honorary degrees from Smith College (1995), Michigan State University (1997) and Haverford College (1999).
Fonts
- A matter of choices , Rutgers University Press 1994 (autobiography)
- Nuclear spectroscopy , 2 volumes, Academic Press 1960, Reprint 1966
- with Ernest K. Warburton Nuclear spectroscopy , Physics Today, November 1983
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Physics professor Ajzenberg-Selove; honored by US at philly.com; Retrieved September 8, 2012. Date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American experimental nuclear physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2012 |