George Feher
George Feher | |
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| Born | 29 May 1924 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1976) Max Delbruck Prize (1982) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2006/7) |
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| Fields | Physics Biophysics |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur F. Kip |
George Feher (29 May 1924 – 28 November 2017) was an American
Birth and education
George Feher was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1924.[3] Fehér is a hungarian name and his birth town was ceeded from Hungary 4 years before his birth. So Fehér was a hungarian jew.
As a teenager, interested in electronics and crystals, he made experiments and grew crystals in his house. In 1938 he was expelled from school as a Jew,
In 1944 Feher tried to apply for the Technion but he could not be accepted since he did not graduate high school and due to lack of knowledge of
With poor means he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor's degree in engineering physics (1950), master's degree in electrical engineering (1951) and doctorate (1954).[5][4]
Academic career
After completing his PhD, he worked as a physicist at
Research
His main research was to uncover the basic mechanisms for how plants and bacteria use photosynthesis to convert light into chemical energy. His contributions to science were the development of spectroscopic tools and their applications, in particular, to problems in biochemistry and biophysics. He was the first to develop a form of double-frequency spectroscopy, Electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR), for which he chose a name reminiscent of the biblical witch of Endor. This was the forerunner of many other double-resonance methods.
Wolf Prize
In 2006/07, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry along with Ada Yonath of Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel for "ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis".[7]
References
- ^ "George Feher 1924–2017". La Jolla Light. December 21, 2017.
- ^ "Feher & Okamura Biophysics, UCSD". www-physics.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
- ISSN 0306-3666. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
- ^ S2CID 9884567.
- ^ "Array of Contemporary American Physicists - George Feher". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ^ "George Feher passed away at 93". International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR).
- ^ The Wolf Prize in Chemistry Archived May 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- UC San Diego Professor Wins Wolf Prize in Chemistry
- The Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2006/07 Archived 2011-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Out of the Clear Sky
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