Max Dresden
Max Dresden · Science & Medicine
Physicist; statistical mechanics and history of physics
1918, Amsterdam, Netherlands — 1997, Palo Alto, California, United States
Netherlands · United States
Max Dresden is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; statistical mechanics and history of physics
Dresden was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist who worked on statistical mechanics, superconductivity and quantum field theory, and became a noted historian of physics (including a major biography of H. A. Kramers). Of Jewish background, he emigrated to the United States, earning his PhD at Michigan in 1946, and taught at Iowa, Kansas, Stony Brook and Stanford's SLAC. He is documented among Jewish physicists in reference directories of the field.
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Physicist; statistical mechanics and history of physics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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