David Shoenberg

David Shoenberg, MBE, FRS, ( born January 4, 1911 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire; † 10 March 2004) was a British physicist.

He was the son of Isaac Shoenberg. Shoenberg was educated at the Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1935. He worked in the Royal Society moon laboratory, which was a part of the Cavendish Laboratory. There he studied with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and James Chadwick, with whom he continues remained in contact letter after his return to the Soviet Union in 1934.

He was professor of physics at the University of Cambridge and the head of the low-temperature physics group of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1973 to 1978 and finally professor emeritus. He was also a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Shoenberg analyzed especially solid state physics and low temperature physics. He has published work on the de Haas -van Alphen - effect for the experimental determination of Fermi surfaces, magnetism, superconductivity in uranium and to determine the London penetration depth 's. In 1938 he published a textbook on superconductivity, which was edited in 1952 again.

He supervised the doctoral work of Brian Pippard and John Hulm, which later became the A15 superconductors discovered.

In 1944 he was awarded the MBE in 1953 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1964 he received the Fritz London Memorial Award.