Robert Herman
Robert Herman (born August 29, 1914 in Bronx , New York , † February 13, 1997 in Austin , Texas ) was an American physicist and cosmologist .
Training and works
Herman studied physics at City College of New York (graduating in 1935) and at Princeton University , where he received his doctorate in 1940 with an experimental thesis on molecular spectra. From 1942 he was at the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University . During this time they worked together with Ralph Alpher and George Gamow , during which they predicted the cosmic background radiation in 1948 . At that time, this was hardly noticed, the background radiation was only detected in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson from the Bell Laboratories, who received the Nobel Prize for it in 1978 . Herman and Alphers work was recognized in 1993 by the award of the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences .
From 1956 Herman was at the General Motors Research Lab, where he devoted himself partly in collaboration with Elliott Montroll to the modeling of traffic flows. From 1979 he was professor of physics and civil engineering at the same time at the University of Texas at Austin .
Prizes and awards
- 1959: Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
- 1975: Magellanic Premium with Ralph Alpher
- 1979: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1993: John von Neumann Theory Prize and Henry Draper Medal
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Herman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert Herman, 82, Physicist Who Predicted Big Bang Echo. In: New York Times. February 22, 1997, accessed January 15, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Frederick W. Lanchester Prize. (No longer available online.) Informs.org ( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ), archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . 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.
- ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Herman, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and cosmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx , New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1997 |
| Place of death | Austin , Texas , USA |