Joseph Hirschfelder
Joseph Hirschfelder · Science & Medicine
Manhattan Project physicist; founder of theoretical chemistry; National Medal of Science (1975)
1911, Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 1990, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
United States
Joseph Hirschfelder is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Manhattan Project physicist; founder of theoretical chemistry; National Medal of Science (1975)
Joseph O. Hirschfelder was an American physicist and a founder of theoretical chemistry who worked on the Manhattan Project — heading the ordnance ballistics effort — and later co-authored the classic 'Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids'. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976 for contributions to atomic and molecular quantum mechanics and reaction-rate theory. He was born to a Jewish family in Baltimore.
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Manhattan Project physicist; founder of theoretical chemistry; National Medal of Science (1975)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
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