Eugen Merzbacher ( born Eugen Merzbacher , April 9, 1921 , Berlin , Germany - June 6, 2013 , Chapel Hill , USA ) is an American physicist of German descent who worked in the field of quantum mechanics . Known for his textbook Quantum Mechanics. In 1990, he was president of the American Physical Society .
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| Awards and prizes | Oersted Medal ( 1992 ) [d] |
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Biography
Born in a family of teachers and scientists in Berlin on April 9, 1921. In 1935, he moved with his family to Turkey, where he graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in physics. After graduation from 1943 to 1947 [3] he taught chemistry and physics.
In 1947 he emigrated to the United States to continue his studies at Harvard University . Under the leadership of Julian Schwinger, for three years he prepared a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, dedicated to the theory of beta decay .
After a short stay at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton , in 1951 he moved to Duke University , where he took part in the theoretical support of the new nuclear program. A year later, however, he moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he began work at the Faculty of Physics. Here Eugen Merzbacher remains for life. In 1969 he received the position of professor of physics at the faculty.
He also worked as a temporary employee at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen in 1959-1960 and at the University of Frankfurt in 1977.
In 1977-1982, being the rector of the Faculty of Physics, he conducted the then-essential revision of the physics and astronomy course taught to students.
In 1971-1972 he headed the Southeastern section of the American Physical Society. For many years he was one of the leading officials of the company, and in 1990 served as its president. In these positions he spent a lot of work on adapting the strategy of society and its documents, primarily the constitution, to the changing realities in which members of the society had to work. In the mid-1990s, he took part in the work of a working group aimed at tightening the criteria for accepting articles for publication in journals published by the American Physical Society .
Scientific Achievements
Known for his work on the application of the Born approximation of plane waves to the problem of the appearance of vacancies on the inner shells of atoms in their collision with ions . In particular, he was one of the first to understand that the dynamics of such interactions, including the emission of electromagnetic waves, can be understood as the evolution of isolated atomic energy levels into quasi-molecular levels and back. Two of his articles were included among the 50 most important articles published by the American Journal of Physics in his first 50 years.
Membership in public organizations
- American Physical Society
Rewards
- 1992 - Oersted Medal , American Physics Teachers Association
Bibliography
- Eugen Merzbacher. Quantum Mechanics . - Wiley, 1961 .-- P. 544.
- Eugen Merzbacher. Quantum Mechanics . - 2nd ed. - New York: Wiley, 1970.
- Eugen Merzbacher. Quantum Mechanics . - 3rd ed. - Wiley, 1998 .-- P. 672. - ISBN 0471887021 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Physics Today - Melville : AIP Publishing , 1948. - ISSN 0031-9228 ; 1945-0699
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Eugen Merzbacher Archived December 11, 2015 on the Wayback Machine // Biography on the website of the American Institute of Physics
Literature
- Thomas B. Clegg. Eugen Merzbacher (Eng.) // Physics Today . - 2013 .-- Vol. 66, no. 12 . - P. 62. - DOI : 10.1063 / PT.3.2222 .