Charles Leon Schwartz

Background

Schwartz, Charles Leon was born on June 9, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Morris and Fannie (Mencher) Schwartz.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954.

Career

Research associate physics department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954-1956; research associate physics department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1956-1957; assistant professor physics department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1957-1960; assistant professor physics department, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1962; associate professor physics department, University of California, Berkeley, 1962-1967; professor physics department, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1993; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, since 1993. Investigator, teacher, advisory of social responsibility in science. Critic ofmilitarism and its influence on science and the university.

Membership

Co-founder Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action, 1969, later re-named Science for the People.

Connections

Married Sylvia Esta Baker, August 17, 1952. Children: Steven, Alan, Wendy Schwartz Snyder.

Father:

Morris Schwartz

Mother:

Fannie (Mencher) Schwartz

Spouse:

Sylvia Esta Baker

child:

Alan Schwartz

child:

Wendy Schwartz Snyder Schwartz

child:

Steven Schwartz