George Benedek

George Bernard Benedek (born 1 December 1928) is an American physicist currently the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Physics and Biological Physics and of Health Sciences and Technology Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2][3][4]

He graduated BS in Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949, AM in Physics at Harvard University in 1952 and PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1953; he was a doctoral student of Edward Mills Purcell.[5]

He invented quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and in 1962 was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was awarded their Irving Langmuir Award in 1995.

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