Donald Ginsberg
Donald Maurice Ginsberg, also Donald M. Ginsberg ( born November 19, 1933, Chicago; † 7 May, 2007 Urbana, Illinois ) was an American physicist.
Life
Ginsberg studied Humanities at the University of Chicago; after graduating in 1952 he made 1955 an undergraduate degree in physics in 1956 and his master. At the University of California, Berkeley, he received his doctorate in 1960. He was from 1960 to 1962 and from 1962 to 1964 Research Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 1960 he made his postdoc a scholarship from the National Science Foundation at the University of Cambridge. In 1959 he became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He retired in 1996.
He was admitted as a full member of the American Physical Society. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1998 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize honored.
Work
Donald Ginsberg became known for his research on superconductors, in particular for the production of YBCO, a group of superconductors with an unusually high transition temperature at 90 K.
His five - volume work, "Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors " is a standard reference for physicists, chemists and material scientists.
Writings
- Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors. Volume I, World Scientific Publishing, 1989, ISBN 9971-5-0683-1; Volume II, World Scientific Publishing, 1990, ISBN 981-02-0190-7; Volume III, World Scientific Publishing 1992, ISBN 981-02-0874- X; Volume IV, World Scientific Publishing 1994, ISBN 981-02-1637-8; Volume V, World Scientific Publishing 1996, ISBN 981-02-2464-8
- Sunbeams case. AuthorHouse 2002, ISBN 1-4033-2337-2