David Shoenberg was a British physicist who worked in condensed matter physics.
12 Facts About David Shoenberg
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David Shoenberg was the fourth of five children of Sir Isaac Shoenberg, engineer and pioneer of radio and television, and Esther.
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David Shoenberg was born in St Petersburg, but came to England with the family when he was three.
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David Shoenberg attended Latymer Upper School, from where he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge and went up in October 1929.
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David Shoenberg had intended to study mathematics, but after one year he switched to physics, gaining a First in 1932.
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David Shoenberg left Shoenberg more or less on his own.
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Back in Moscow a new Laboratory had been built for Kapitza, to which David Shoenberg was invited in 1937.
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David Shoenberg spent a year there, continuing work on, and making considerable advances in the understanding of dHvA.
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In Cambridge, in March 1940, David Shoenberg married Catherine Felicite Fischmann, who was some five years older.
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David Shoenberg's ancestry was Russian but she was born a Belgian, and had taken British nationality before her marriage.
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David Shoenberg was a physiology graduate of University College London and worked in Cambridge on tissue culture, at the Strangeways Research Laboratory and elsewhere.
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David Shoenberg died in Addenbrooke's Hospital on 10 March 2004, following a stroke, and was cremated in Cambridge on the 18th.