David H. Frisch
David H. Frisch | |
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 David H. Frisch Los Alamos wartime security badge. | |
| Born | March 12, 1918 |
| Died | May 23, 1991(aged 73) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Princeton |
| Known for | Helped develop theatom bombin World War II |
| Spouse | Rose Epstein Frisch |
| Awards | Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Los Alamos |
| Thesis | (1947) |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Weisskopf |
| Doctoral students | George Smoot[1] |
David Henry Frisch(March 12, 1918 – May 23, 1991) was an Americanphysicistwho helped develop theatom bombinWorld War IIand later became active in thedisarmamentmovement.[2]He was also the husband ofRose Epstein Frisch.
Biography[edit]
Born inNew York,Frisch grew up inSan Antonioand graduated fromPrincetonin 1940. He was agraduate assistantat theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madisonfrom 1940 to 1942, and then worked atLos Alamosfrom 1943 to 1945. After the war he moved toMIT,beginning as a research associate in 1946, obtained his PhD in 1947 and was appointed an assistant professor in 1948, associate professor in 1952 and full professor in 1958. He retired in 1988.
Frisch was a fellow of theAmerican Physical Societyand of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.He was the recipient ofFulbright,Guggenheim,Alfred P. Sloanand National Science Foundation research fellowships.
Frisch served on the Physics Advisory Committee of theNational Science Foundation,on theBrookhavenHigh Energy Advisory Committee, and was chairman of the Long-Range Planning committee of theFermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Frisch was active in the field of nuclear disarmament, participating in theMoscow Pugwash Conferencein 1960, editing the bookArms Reductionin 1961, and participating in the 1962 Woods Hole Summer Study on Inspection.
Among his scientific publications was a 1963 paper in which he andJames H. Smithsucceeded in showing objectivetime dilationin the decay of cosmicmuons.A thirty-five-minute movie describing this experiment performed both on the top ofMount WashingtoninNew Hampshireas well as atMITis available online.[3]
He was married to biologistRose Frisch.
Selected publications[edit]
- D.H. Frisch and J.H. Smith, Am. J. Phys., 31, 342-355 (1963).
References[edit]
- ^Katherine Bourzac (12 January 2007)."Nobel Causes".Technology Review.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-01-29.Retrieved2007-09-05.
And Smoot himself can still vividly recall playing a practical joke on his graduate thesis advisor, MIT physics professor David Frisch.
- ^Weisskopf, Victor;Low, Francis;Osborne, Louis (July 1992)."Obituary: David H. Frisch".Physics Today.45(7): 80–81.Bibcode:1992PhT....45g..80W.doi:10.1063/1.2809748.
- ^"Time Dilation - an Experiment with Mu-Mesons".
External links[edit]
- 2015 Video Interview with Henry Frisch, son of David FrischVoices of the Manhattan Project
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