Background
Halpern, Leopold Ernst was born on February 17, 1925 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Jacob and Friedericke (Trebitsch) Halpern. came to the United States, 1974.
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Leopold Ernst Halpern
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Leopold Ernst Halpern, Austrian Physicist. Achievements include co-investigation of possibility of a gravitational laser; description of spin degrees of freedom in a unified field theory. Senior research grantee Joint European Torus Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 1986-1988; recipient Senior Research Physics award National Research Council, 1986-1988.
Education
AM, British Institute Engineering Technology, London, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Vienna, Austria, 1952.
Career
Assistant, U. Vienna, Austria, 1957-1959; research associate, European Organization of Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland, 1954-1960; research physicist, Institute Field Physics, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1960-1961; research physicist, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962-1963; research physicist, Nordita docent, U. Stockholm, Sweden, 1963-1966; research physicist, Nordita docent, Institute H. Poincare, Paris, 1966-1967; associate professor, U. Windsor, Ontario., Canada, 1967-1970; research physicist, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, 1970-1973; research physicst, Florida State University, Tallahassee, since 1974; lecturer, U. Amsterdam, Windsor, Ontario., Canada, 1974.
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Member numerous conservation and environmental protection organs. Member American Physical Society.
