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- Physics Today 2004, Obit
- The Wigner Medal: Vice Chairman Morton Hamermesh passed away on November 14, 2003. He was one of the original founders of the Wigner Medal. Morton Hamermesh was a leader in the applications of mathematics to physical problems. He obtained his bachelor's from City College and Ph.D. from NYU. He worked at Stanford, Harvard, Argonne National Lab, and at the University of Minnesota, serving as chairman of the Departments of Physics there and at SUNY-Stony Brook. He was among the first American scholors to teach in China, lecturing in the early 1980s. His monograph Group Theory and Its Applicatoins to Physical Problems has introduced generations of physicists to the group theoretical methods in physics.
- Stony Brook Department of Physics and Astronomy: Morton Hamermesh (1915-2003) came from the University of Minnesota to serve as chair of the Department of Physics at Stony Brook during the year 1968-69. After a year he returned to Minnesota. He is known to all physics students as the author of the group theory book.
Morton Hamermesh
December 27, 1915 - November 14, 2003
First, Middle and Last Name: Morton Hamermesh |
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Date of Birth: December 27, 1915 |
Date of Death: November 14, 2003 |
Name of Father: Isidore Hamermesh |
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Name of Mother: Rose Hamermesh (born Kornhauser) |
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Birth: Brooklyn, New York |
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Occupation(s): Physics professor and former head of the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy. He joined the university in 1965 after two years as associate director at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Previously, he had taught physics for about two decades at New York University and City College of New York — both alma maters — and at Stanford University in California. Hamermesh left the University of Minnesota in 1969 for a similar post at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, but he returned to the Twin Cities a year later. He led the university's School of Physics and Astronomy until 1975, and retired in 1985. |
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Residence(s): (1944) Cambridge, Massachusetts; (1950) Park Forest, Cook, Illinois; |
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Spouse(s): Madeline Goldberg Hamermesh |
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Siblings: Harold N Hamermesh; Bernard H Hamermesh; Charles L Hamermesh |
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Children: Deborah White of Ukiah, Calif.; Daniel of Austin, Texas; Lawrence of Wilmington, Del. |
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- Morton Hamermesh, 2003 ➦ bio + additional games
- Morton Hamermesh, 2004 ➦ bio + additional games
