Background
Siegert, Arnold John Frederick was born on January 1, 1911 in Dresden, Germany. Came to United States, 1936, naturalized, 1942. Son of Frederick Ludwig and Lea (Rosenberg) Siegert.
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Arnold John Frederick Siegert
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Student, Institute of Technology, Dresden, Germany, 1930. Student, University Vienna, Austria, 1929. Student, University Innsbruck, 1930.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Leipzig, 1934.
Career
Lorentz Funds fellow, Leiden, Holland, 1934-1936. Graduate assistant Stanford (California) University, 1936-1939. Physicist The Texas Company, Houston, 1939-1942, National Geophysical Company, Dallas, May-September 1942, Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, Tulsa, September-December 1942, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1942-1945.
Associate professor physics Syracuse University, 1946-1947. Professor physics Northwestern University, 1947-1979, professor emeritus, since 1979. Guest professor University Utrecht, Netherlands, 1979-1980, H.A. Kramers professor, 1980.
Research in theoretical physics. Guggenheim fellow, 1953-1954. Member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 1953-1954.
National Science Foundation senior postdoctoral fellow at Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, University Amsterdam (Netherlands), 1962-1963. At physics department Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel, 1963-1964. Guest professor University Utrecht, Netherlands, 1971-1972.
Visiting professor Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, 1978.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Physical Society.
Connections
Married Anna Beatrice Brown, February 12, 1944. 1 son, Allan.
