George Feher
George Feher (as Juraj Feher , born May 29, 1924 in Bratislava ; † November 28, 2017 in La Jolla ) was a Slovak -American physicist and biophysicist.
In April 1941, as a Jew, he fled from the National Socialists, initially to Palestine . He studied at the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his master's degree in 1951 and his doctorate in 1954 . He then worked at Bell Laboratories . In 1960 he became a professor at the then newly founded University of California, San Diego (UCSD). From 1993 he held a research professorship there. He was visiting professor at Columbia University (1959/60 Visiting Associate Professor) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Feher was known for the development of the ENDOR process ( electron-nucleus double resonance ) in solid-state physics in the 1950s and for investigations into the primary mechanism of photosynthesis .
In 2006 he received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. The UCSD biophysics laboratory is named after Feher and Melvin Okamura . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1986) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977). In 1960 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1976 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . In 1982 he received the Max Delbruck Prize in Biophysics.
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- ↑ Daniella Goldfarb: George Feher passed away at 93rd International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR), December 4, 2017, accessed on December 9, 2017 (English).
- ↑ legacy.com: George Feher Obituary , accessed December 22, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feher, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feher, Juraj |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak-American physicist and biophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bratislava |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 2017 |
| Place of death | La Jolla |