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David Schoenberg

Who

David Schoenberg · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; the de Haas-van Alphen effect and superconductivity

When

1911, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 2004, Cambridge, England

Where

United Kingdom

Biography

David Schoenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the de Haas-van Alphen effect and superconductivity

How & why

David Shoenberg was a British physicist who made the de Haas–van Alphen effect a practical tool for mapping the Fermi surfaces of metals, and wrote authoritative texts on superconductivity and magnetic oscillations. Born in Saint Petersburg to a Jewish family and raised in England, he was of documented Jewish origin. He spent his career at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; the de Haas-van Alphen effect and superconductivity

1911

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics