Eugen Merzbacher
Eugen Merzbacher · Science & Medicine
Physicist; author of a widely used Quantum Mechanics textbook
1921, Berlin, Germany — 2013, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Germany · Turkey · United States
Eugen Merzbacher is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; author of a widely used Quantum Mechanics textbook
Eugen Merzbacher was a German-born American physicist whose textbook Quantum Mechanics (1961) became one of the most widely used graduate texts in the field. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, he fled Nazi Germany in 1935, studied in Turkey, and earned his PhD at Harvard under Julian Schwinger before a long career at the University of North Carolina. His Jewish identity is well documented through his family's flight from Nazi persecution.
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Physicist; author of a widely used Quantum Mechanics textbook
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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