Benjamin Abeles

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Benjamin Abeles
Born
Bedrich Abeles
David Sarnoff Research Center, Exxon Research and Engineering, Annandale, New Jersey.
ThesisThe Galvanomagnetic Effects in Bismuth and Bi-Sn Alloys (1955)

Benjamin Abeles (23 June 1925 – 14 December 2020) was an Austrian-Czech physicist whose research in the 1960s in the US on

Voyager spacecraft. He grew up in Austria and Czechoslovakia and arrived in the UK in 1939 on one of the Kindertransport missions. He completed his education after the war in Czechoslovakia and Israel (from 1949), obtaining a doctorate in physics. He then lived and worked as a research physicist in the US and retired in 1995. His honours include the 1979 Stuart Ballantine Medal and his induction into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
(1991).

Early life and education

Born in

Charles University in Prague and Czech Technical University in Prague, before moving to Israel in 1949 to study for his physics doctorate in Jerusalem.[2] His thesis, published in 1955, was titled 'The Galvanomagnetic Effects in Bismuth and Bi–Sn Alloys'.[4]

Career

Following the award of his PhD, Abeles worked in Israel on germanium electronics before moving to the United States to carry out research in Princeton for the

University of Texas.[2]

Recognition and later life

For their work, Abeles and Cody received the 1979 Stuart Ballantine Medal (Engineering) from the Franklin Institute,[6] and were inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.[5] Abeles's 65th birthday in 1990 was marked by a symposium in his honour: 'Physical Phenomena in Granular Materials'.[7] He retired in 1995, and subsequently lived predominantly in the UK.[2]

Abeles died in Leicester, England on 14 December 2020, aged 95.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Benjamin Abeles (* 1925 †︎ 2020) Pamet Naroda
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Wintonovo dítě vyvinulo zdroj energie pro kosmické sondy". lidovky.cz. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Child refugees who fled Nazis plead for UK to take in more migrants". BBC News. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  4. ^ "התופעות הגלונומגנטיות בביסמוט ונתכי ביסמוט-בדיל". Weizmann Institute of Science. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  5. ^ a b "1991 Award Winners". New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Franklin Laureate Database: Benjamin Abeles". Franklin Institute. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  7. OCLC 489910429
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  8. ^ Zemřel fyzik Bedřich Abeles. Sloužil v RAF, vynalezl pohon pro Voyager (in Czech)

External links

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