Herman Feshbach
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]
Herman Feshbach
2 February 1917
22 December 2000 (aged 83)
Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Science, Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, Fellow of the American Physical Society
The theory of hydrogen three (1942)
Robert Louis Pease
Background[edit]
Feshbach was born in New York City and graduated from the City College of New York in 1937. He was a member of the same family as Dr. Murray Feshbach, the Sovietologist and retired Georgetown University professor. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1942.[2] Feshbach attended the Shelter Island Conference of 1947.
Awards and honors[edit]
Feshbach joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1969 and was president of the American Physical Society from 1980 to 1981. From 1982 to 1986, he was president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1986, Feshbach was awarded the National Medal of Science.
In 1984, the physics department honored Feshbach for his decades of service by starting the annual Herman Feshbach Lectures. The physics department also has an endowed Herman Feshbach chair, established in 1999 to support theoretical physicists. It is currently held by Frank Wilczek.
The American Physical Society awards the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics; it is awarded annually and was inaugurated in 2014.