Michael Nauenberg

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Michael Nauenberg
Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem
SpouseJosette Nauenberg[1][2]
ChildrenPeter Nauenberg
Maria Neumann
Tanya Nauenberg-Blakeslee
Sander Nauenberg
Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell[1][2]
Scientific career
Fieldstheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
ThesisThe inelastic scattering of mesons and baryons (1960)
Doctoral advisorHans Bethe
Websitehttp://physics.ucsc.edu/~michael/

Michael Nauenberg (19 December 1934 – 22 July 2019) was an American

theoretical physicist and physics historian.[1][2]

Life

Born to a secular Jewish family in Berlin, his family emigrated to

Barranquilla, Colombia in 1939 to escape persecution from the Nazis in World War II
. When he moved to the United States in the 1950s, Nauenberg studied at the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Stanford University. In 1966 he became Professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
(UCSC). He played a crucial role in the development of the UCSC Physics Department in its early days and he was instrumental in developing both Stevenson and Crown Colleges. He was also from 1988 to 1994 director of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at UCSC. After his retirement in 1994, he became Research Professor of Physics at UCSC. He was a visiting professor at various research institutions and universities in Europe.

Nauenberg worked in the field of particle and nuclear physics as well as theoretical

Edmund Clifton Stoner[7] and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.[8]

From 1963 to 1964 he held a

Sloan Research Fellow.[10] From 1989 to 1990 he was a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2013, he received the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award for his influential work on the history of science.[11]

When Nauenberg passed away in 2019, the UCSC Emeriti Association and the Nauenberg family established a History of Science Lecture series at UCSC in his honor.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c "In Memoriam: Michael Nauenberg (1934–2019)". News Center. UC Santa Cruz. July 29, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  2. ^ a b c "Michael Nauenberg (1934 - 2019)". Obituaries. Santa Cruz Sentinel. August 4, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  3. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.133.B1549
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  4. S2CID 54534318
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  5. doi:10.1119/1.17576
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  6. S2CID 122004268
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  7. S2CID 43792649
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  8. doi:10.1063/pt.3.1140
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  9. ^ "Michael Nauenberg". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  10. ^ "Past Fellows". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Archived from the original on 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  11. ^ Stephens, Tim. "UCSC physicist Michael Nauenberg wins UC distinguished emeriti award". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  12. ^ White, Dan. "The Newton you don't know". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2024-02-26.

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