Aihud Pevsner
Aihud Pevsner (December 18, 1925 – June 17, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who was the lead researcher credited with the discovery of the Eta meson.[1]
Born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, to Yoshua Pevsner and Esther Ben-Yeshaia, Aihud Pevsner immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of three. The family, of Belarusian-Jewish descent, settled in New York. Pevsner served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1945, and married Lucille Wolf in 1949.
Upon earning a doctorate in physics from Columbia University, he began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] In 1956, Pevsner joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty. Over the course of his career, Pevsner received two Guggenheim fellowships,[2] was named a Fulbright Scholar, and granted fellowship by the American Physical Society.[1] He was the lead researcher credited with the discovery of the Eta meson, and appointed a Jacob L. Hain professor in 1977.[1]
Pevsner died at the age of 92 on June 17, 2018.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Experimental physicist Aihud Pevsner dies at 92". June 22, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
- ^ "Aihud Pevsner". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
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