Sidney Fernbach
Sidney Fernbach (born August 4, 1917 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † February 15, 1991 ) was an American physicist .
Fernbach graduated from Temple University with a Masters in Physics and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 . He then went to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he became head of the computer department in 1955. In 1958/59 he also headed the theory department. From 1975 until his retirement in 1979 he was the LLNL's Deputy Associate Director for Scientific Support . He then worked as a consultant, including for control data .
Fernbach played a major role in the development of supercomputers for scientific purposes in the USA, starting with the UNIVAC I and later in particular with Control Data and Cray (especially in contact with Seymour Cray ). He has served on many government committees, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation . In 1974 he founded a supercomputer data center for nuclear fusion, later the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC). He chaired the IEEE Scientific Supercomputers Sub-Committee and founded the annual Compcon meeting of the IEEE Computer Society .
He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was also the editor of the Methods in Computational Physics series and the Journal of Computational Physics and was responsible for the applications division of the Journal of Supercomputing .
In 1987 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award .
The IEEE Computer Society has given him the Sidney Fernbach Award in his honor since 1993 .
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| SURNAME | Fernbach, Sidney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1991 |