Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

Fay Ajzenberg - Selove, born Aisenberg, ( born February 13, 1926 in Berlin, † 8 August 2012 ) was an American experimental nuclear physicist.

Ajzenberg - Selove came in 1940 with her family to the United States as a Jewish refugee from Europe ( the family emigrated in 1930 from Germany to Paris, after the German occupation of France to Portugal). She studied at the University of Michigan (Bachelor 1946) to become an engineer, first with the target. Then switched to physics after they had occupied at Columbia University, courses, and in 1949 had a summer residence in the Swiss Alps with the study of cosmic rays. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, where in 1949 she met her Master made ​​and in 1952 received his doctorate. After that, she was a lecturer ( Lecturer ) at Smith College (whose honorary doctorate it was 1995) and Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1953, she was Assistant Professor at Boston University, and in 1956 associate professor at Haverford College, where she was professor in 1962 and multi- physics faculty board. From 1973 she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

They dealt primarily with nuclear spectroscopy of light nuclei and gave appropriate overviews with Thomas Lauritsen - with whom she first worked as a post- doctoral student at Caltech - and other out ( they appeared annually in the journal Nuclear Physics A ).

In 1955, she married Walter Selove. She was a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS ) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( in their Leitungsrat it from 1974 to 1980). 1965/1966 she was Guggenheim Fellow. 1973/1974 she stood in front of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS and 1978 to 1981 of the Commission of Nuclear Physics of IUPAP. In 1999 she received the Nicholson Medal of the APS and 2007, the National Medal of Science.

She was an honorary doctor of Smith College ( 1995), Michigan State University (1997) and Haverford College ( 1999).

Writings

  • A matter of choices, Rutgers University Press, 1994 ( autobiography)
  • Nuclear spectroscopy, 2 volumes, Academic Press 1960, reprint 1966
  • With Ernest K. Warburton Nuclear spectroscopy, Physics Today, November 1983
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