Jerrold Zacharias
Jerrold Reinach Zacharias (born January 23, 1905 in Jacksonville (Florida) , † July 16, 1986 ) was an American atomic physicist and Institute Professor (an award) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Life
Zacharias worked on both MIT's "Rad Lab" and the Manhattan Project . After the war he helped set up the physics faculty at MIT and brought Bruno Rossi and Victor Weisskopf to MIT. He developed the first usable version of the atomic clock .
In 1949 Zacharias was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1957 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1961 he received the Oersted Medal .
Zacharias worked for the government of Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House's Office of Science and Technology . He was also active as an educational reformer.
literature
- Norman F. Ramsey: Jerrold R. Zacharias (1905-1986) . National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
- Jack S. Goldstein: A Different Sort of Time: The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias . MIT Press, 1992.
Web links
- Jerrold Zacharias in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Feshbach, Herman ; French, Anthony P .; Hill, Albert G .; King, John G .: Obituary: Jerrold Reinach Zacharias Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Physics Today . 40, No. 7, July 1987, pp. 85-86. bibcode : 1987PhT .... 40g..85F . doi : 10.1063 / 1.2820125 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zacharias, Jerrold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American nuclear physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jacksonville (Florida) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1986 |