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physicist researcher

Saul Barshay, American physicist, researcher. Recipient Senior United States Scientist award Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1981; named Lady Davis Professor, Lady Davis Foundation, Technion, Israel, 1987; National Science Foundation fellow, Copenhagen, London, Paris, 1958-1961.

Background

Barshay, Saul was born on August 3, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Bernard and Gertrude (Scher) Barshay.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1954; Master of Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1957.

Career

Research associate Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 1957-1958. Assistant and associate professor Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1961-1963. Associate professor to full professor Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963-1968.

Research scientist Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1968-1973. Visiting professor University Utrecht, Holland, 1972, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1973-1975. Professor physics National Center for Scientific Research, Strasbourg, France, 1975-1977.

Visiting professor University Leuven, Belgium, 1978-1980. Professor theoretical physics group III Physikalisches Institute Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany, since 1981. Visiting professor N.I.K.E.F., Amsterdam, 1979, University Brussels, 1980, Yukawa Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto, Japan, 1984-1985, University Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, 1993.

Achievements

  • Saul Barshay has been listed as a noteworthy physicist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Interests

  • Avocations: painting, drawing, music.

Connections

Father:
Bernard Barshay

Mother:
Gertrude (Scher) Barshay