Herman Feshbach | |
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| Born | 2 February 1917 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | 22 December 2000 (aged 83) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | City College of New York, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Feshbach resonance |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Science, Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, Fellow of the American Physical Society |
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| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | The theory of hydrogen three (1942) |
| Doctoral students | Robert Louis Pease |
Herman Feshbach (2 February 1917 – 22 December 2000) was an American physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics.[1]
- ^ Lomon, Earle; Gottfried, Kurt; Bromley, Allan (October 2001). "Obituary: Herman Feshbach". Physics Today. 54 (10): 89–90. Bibcode:2001PhT....54j..89L. doi:10.1063/1.1420569.