biography
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| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Vienna, Austria. He escaped the Nazis and emigrated to England (1939) and then Canada (1940). He went to Harvard in 1946, taught there (1948–50), and then moved to the Carnegie-Mellon Institute (1950–60) where he contributed to the theory of electronic structure of metals. He joined the University of California, San Diego (1960–79), and continued his work on the physics of solids. He directed Santa Barbara's Institute for Theoretical Physics (1979–84), then became a physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1984). |
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