George Benedek

George Bernard Benedek was an American physicist who spent more than five decades at MIT, where he invented quasi-elastic (dynamic) light scattering spectroscopy and applied it to biophysics and medicine, including studies of cataract formation and eye transparency. A doctoral student of Edward Mills Purcell at Harvard, he won the 1995 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics. He was born to a Jewish family, and his memorial was held through a Jewish funeral home.