Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Eugen_Merzbacher> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 71 of
71
with 100 items per page.
- Eugen_Merzbacher abstract "Eugen Merzbacher (born April 9, 1921 in Berlin, died June 6, 2013) was an American physicist.Being a Jew, he emigrated in 1935 with his family from Germany to Turkey, where his father worked as a chemist. He received his licentiate from University of Istanbul in Turkey in 1943 and taught high school in Ankara for the next four years. In 1947 he moved to the United States to attend Harvard University, where he earned his M.A. (1948) and his Ph.D. with Julian Schwinger in 1950. During 1950/51, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1951-52, Merzbacher was a visiting assistant professor at Duke University. In 1952 he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In 1959/60, he worked at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, where he became closely acquainted with Niels Bohr; in 1967/68 he was visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1977 he was the recipient of a U. S. Senior Scientist Humboldt Award at the University of Frankfurt. In 1986 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling in Scotland. In 1991 he was Arnold Bernhard Visiting Professor at Williams College. In 1992 he received the Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers. In 2009 Merzbacher was the recipient of the Francis Slack Award from the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society.Merzbacher's research has been in applications of quantum mechanics to atomic and nuclear collision theory. He was a co-founder of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. From 1977 to 1982 he served as chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC). He was named a Kenan Professor in 1969. He received UNC's 1972 Thomas Jefferson Award. Merzbacher is probably best known for his influential graduate level quantum mechanics textbook, which has so far seen three editions, the most recent in 1998. He married Ann Townsend Reid and together they had four children: Celia, Charles, Matthew and Mary (deceased). Merzbacher retired in 1991. In 1990, he was President of the American Physical Society. In 1993, UNC presented him with an honorary doctorate in science.".
- Eugen_Merzbacher birthDate "1921-04-09".
- Eugen_Merzbacher birthPlace Berlin.
- Eugen_Merzbacher birthYear "1921".
- Eugen_Merzbacher deathDate "2013-06-06".
- Eugen_Merzbacher deathYear "2013".
- Eugen_Merzbacher viafId "80904901".
- Eugen_Merzbacher wikiPageExternalLink thomas-jefferson-award.
- Eugen_Merzbacher wikiPageExternalLink bio.jsp?merzbachere.
- Eugen_Merzbacher wikiPageExternalLink default.php?sectiondetailid=46734&PHPSESSID=67ce34a0f0f380a9765df1f861cc440e.
- Eugen_Merzbacher wikiPageID "11062304".
- Eugen_Merzbacher wikiPageRevisionID "560860200".
- Eugen_Merzbacher dateOfBirth "1921-04-09".
- Eugen_Merzbacher dateOfDeath "2013-06-06".
- Eugen_Merzbacher hasPhotoCollection Eugen_Merzbacher.
- Eugen_Merzbacher name "Merzbacher, Eugen".
- Eugen_Merzbacher placeOfBirth "Berlin, Germany".
- Eugen_Merzbacher shortDescription "Physicist".
- Eugen_Merzbacher description "Physicist".
- Eugen_Merzbacher description "Physicist".
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:1921_births.
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:2013_deaths.
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:American_Jews.
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:American_physicists.
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:Harvard_University_alumni.
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:Institute_for_Advanced_Study_visiting_scholars.
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:People_from_Berlin.
- Eugen_Merzbacher subject Category:University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill_faculty.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Alumnus109786338.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type AmericanPhysicists.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type CausalAgent100007347.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type HarvardUniversityAlumni.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Intellectual109621545.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type LivingPeople.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type LivingThing100004258.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Object100002684.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Organism100004475.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type PeopleFromBerlin.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Person100007846.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Physicist110428004.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Scholar110557854.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Scientist110560637.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Whole100003553.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type YagoLegalActor.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Agent.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Person.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Person.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Q215627.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Q5.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Agent.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type NaturalPerson.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Thing.
- Eugen_Merzbacher type Person.
- Eugen_Merzbacher comment "Eugen Merzbacher (born April 9, 1921 in Berlin, died June 6, 2013) was an American physicist.Being a Jew, he emigrated in 1935 with his family from Germany to Turkey, where his father worked as a chemist. He received his licentiate from University of Istanbul in Turkey in 1943 and taught high school in Ankara for the next four years. In 1947 he moved to the United States to attend Harvard University, where he earned his M.A. (1948) and his Ph.D. with Julian Schwinger in 1950.".
- Eugen_Merzbacher label "Eugen Merzbacher (Physiker)".
- Eugen_Merzbacher label "Eugen Merzbacher".
- Eugen_Merzbacher label "Eugen Merzbacher".
- Eugen_Merzbacher sameAs Eugen_Merzbacher_(Physiker).
- Eugen_Merzbacher sameAs Eugen_Merzbacher.
- Eugen_Merzbacher sameAs m.02qzqk1.
- Eugen_Merzbacher sameAs Q382883.
- Eugen_Merzbacher sameAs Q382883.
- Eugen_Merzbacher sameAs Eugen_Merzbacher.
- Eugen_Merzbacher wasDerivedFrom Eugen_Merzbacher?oldid=560860200.
- Eugen_Merzbacher givenName "Eugen".
- Eugen_Merzbacher isPrimaryTopicOf Eugen_Merzbacher.
- Eugen_Merzbacher name "Eugen Merzbacher".
- Eugen_Merzbacher name "Merzbacher, Eugen".
- Eugen_Merzbacher surname "Merzbacher".