Benjamin Lax
Benjamin Lax · Science & Medicine
Physicist; magneto-optics and semiconductor physics
1915, Miskolc, Hungary — 2015, Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Hungary · United States
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Benjamin Lax was a Hungarian-born American physicist and MIT professor who directed the MIT National Magnet Laboratory and pioneered magneto-optics and the physics of semiconductors and plasmas in strong magnetic fields. His work advanced solid-state physics and high-field magnet science. A Jewish immigrant who came to the U.S. as a child, he was Jewish.
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Physicist; magneto-optics and semiconductor physics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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