Background
Roberts, Arthur was born on July 6, 1912 in New York City. Son of Abraham and Rose (Bloch) Roberts.
Roberts, Arthur was born on July 6, 1912 in New York City. Son of Abraham and Rose (Bloch) Roberts.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1931. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1933. Graduate, Manhattan School Music, 1933.
Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1936.
He is remembered for several humoristic and satirical songs on scientific subjects, which he sang to piano accompaniment. Arthur Roberts was born July 6, 1912, in the Bronx, the son of an Austrian immigrant. In 1933, he got a piano diploma from the New York"s Manhattan School of Music and a master"s degree in physics from Columbia University.
During World World War II, Roberts traveled to Britain while working on the development of radar technology with a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists.
After the war, Roberts was a professor at the University of Chicago physics department, and worked at the Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He became a fellow of the American Physical Society.
During the 1960s and 1970s he used to have occasional music jam sessions with eminent scientists and Nobel laureates who worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He moved to Hawaii in the late 1970s.
Arthur Roberts died April 22, 2004 of Alzheimer"s disease at his home in Honolulu.
Board of directors Contemporary Concerts, Inc., 1965-1980. Music director Light Opera Company, Chicago, 1967-1979. Fellow American Physical Society.
Member American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Janice Banner, May 21, 1935. Children: Judith Roberts Neale, Richard M.