Morton Hamermesh

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Morton Hamermesh (born December 27, 1915 in Brooklyn , † November 14, 2003 in Minneapolis ) was an American theoretical physicist.

Life

Hamermesh studied at the City College of New York ( Bachelor 1936) and received his PhD from New York University in 1940 . He then taught at Stanford University (as an instructor 1942/43), New York University, and then went to the Argonne National Laboratory , as director of the physics department from 1959 to 1963 and then until 1965 as associate director of the laboratory. In 1965 he became a professor at the University of Minnesota and chairman of the School of Physics and Astronomy (SPA) there. In 1969 he was at the State University of New York at Stony Brook , also as chairman of the faculty. In 1970 he was again at the University of Minnesota as Chairman of the SPA until 1975 and then as a professor until his retirement in December 1985. As early as the 1980s, he was lecturing in China.

Hamermesh is still known today for his textbook on group theory for physicists, which was widely used.

Private

In addition to languages, one of his favorite pastimes was playing chess . In it he brought it to a masterful level of play. On December 6, 1933, he took 6th place in a rapid tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York . a. behind Capablanca , Fine and Reshevsky . In 1958/59 he won the Swiss group championship with Zurich- Oerlikon . In February 1984 he received honorary membership from the United States Chess Federation .

Hamermesh died in 2003 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis after a heart attack. He was married to Madeline for 62 years until his death . He had two sons Daniel and Lawrence and a daughter Deborah White .

Fonts

  • Group theory and its application to physical problems. Dover (first 1962)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal data at FamilySearch
  2. ^ Chess tournament in New York in 1933
  3. ↑ Schweizerische Arbeiter-Schachzeitung, SGM special issue, May 1959
  4. ↑ Original customer from the estate (owned by the author )
  5. ^ University of Minnesota ( January 17, 2004 memento on the Internet Archive ) - Obituary
  6. ↑ PDF at www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us
  7. ^ Obituary and curriculum vitae ( memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Hamermesh, Morton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2003
Place of death Minneapolis