Background
Klein, Abraham was born on January 10, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of Philip and Ida (Warshofsky) Klein.
Theoretical physicist nuclear scientist
Klein, Abraham was born on January 10, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of Philip and Ida (Warshofsky) Klein.
Klein studied at Brooklyn College (bachelor's degree in 1947) and at Harvard University, where he made his 1948 master's degree and doctorate in 1950 under Julian Schwinger. Klein studied models of collective behavior in finite many-body systems, especially in nuclear physics, for example in Boson model and in an extension of the Hartree–Fock method with Robert Kerman (Kerman–Klein method).
Instructor physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950-1952; junior fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1952-1955; associate professor physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1955-1958; professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1958-1994; professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1994. Visiting professor U. Paris, 1961-1962, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1969-1970, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1975-1976, Yale University, New Haven, 1983. Distinguished visiting professor, Drexel U., since 1994.
Served with United States Air Force, 1946. Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Association of University Professors, American Association Physics Teachers.
Married Murielle Pollack, June 22, 1950. Children— Julia, Hilary.