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FESHBACH, Herman was born on February 2, 1917 in New York, New York, United States. Son of David and Ida Feshhach.
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FESHBACH, Herman was born on February 2, 1917 in New York, New York, United States. Son of David and Ida Feshhach.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1937. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1942. Doctor of Science(honorary), Lowell Technology Institute, 1975.
Degree(honorary), University Lowell, 1974. Degree(honorary), University Torino, Italy, 2000.
He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Feshbach was invited to stay at Massachusetts Institute of Technology after he received his doctorate. He remained on the physics faculty for over fifty years. From 1967 to 1973, he was the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Center for Theoretical Physics, and from 1973 to 1983, he was chairman of the physics department.
In 1983, Feshbach was named as an Institute Professor, the highest faculty honor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Activism In 1969, he participated in a protest against military research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became concerned about the condition of scientists behind the Iron Curtain, and worked to establish contacts between Western scientists and their Eastern Bloc counterparts.
Professor Feshbach also championed the cause of Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet refuseniks. He first met Sakharov in the mid-1970s.
Feshbach wrote about meeting Sakharov after his release from internal exile, in an article that appeared in Physics Today. Professor Feshbach was a strong believer in equality of opportunity, especially within the scientific community.
He worked to increase the number of women and minority members in both the physics department and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in general.
In the early 1990s, he was chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty"s Equal Opportunity Committee, which made recommendations for recruiting and hiring more women and minority faculty members. Feshbach died of heart failure at Youville Hospital in Cambridge. He was 83.
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Trustee Associated Universities Inc., 1974-1987, 1990-1996, honorary trustee, since 1996. Member American Physical Society (chairman division nuclear physics 1970-1971, divisional councillor 1974-1978, Executive Committee 1974-1978, chairman panel on public affairs 1976-1978, vice president 1979-1980, president 1980-1981, Bonner prize 1973), National Academy Sciences, National Research Council, American Academy Arts and Sciences (vice president Class I 1973-1976, president 1982-1986), American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman physics section 1987-1988), International Union Pure and Applied Physics (chairman nuclear physics section 1984-1990).
Married Sylvia Harris, January 28, 1940. Children: Carolyn Barbara, Theodore Philip, Mark Frederick.