George Feher

George Feher (as Juraj Feher, * May 29, 1924 in Bratislava) is an American physicist and biophysicist.

In April 1941, he fled as a Jew from the Nazis, first to Palestine. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where in 1951 he took his master's degree and doctorate in 1954. After that, he worked at Bell Laboratories. In 1960 he became professor at the newly founded University of California, San Diego (UCSD ). Since 1993 he has there a research professorship. He was a visiting professor at Columbia University ( 1959/60 Visiting Associate Professor ) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Feher is known for the development of the ENDOR method ( electron-nuclear double resonance ) in solid state physics in the 1950s and for investigations of the primary mechanism of photosynthesis.

In 2006 he received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. After Feher and Okamura, Melvin the Biophysics Laboratory of the UCSD is named. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975 ), the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( 1986) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977). In 1976 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. In 1982 he received the Max Delbruck Prize in Biophysics.