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Solomon Buchsbaum

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Solomon Buchsbaum · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; plasma physics and solid-state science

When

1929, Stryj, Poland (now Ukraine) — 1993, New Jersey, United States

Where

United States (New Jersey) · Canada · Poland

Biography

Solomon Buchsbaum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; plasma physics and solid-state science

How & why

Solomon J. Buchsbaum was a physicist and technologist who did fundamental work in plasma physics and solid-state science and then led major programs at Bell Laboratories, also chairing the White House Science Council under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush. A Holocaust survivor whose parents and youngest sister were murdered, he emigrated to Canada and then the United States. He was of documented Jewish origin.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; plasma physics and solid-state science

1929

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics