Frederick Reif was an emeritus professor in physics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.
16 Facts About Frederick Reif
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Reif was born in Vienna, Austria on April 24,1927, to Gerschon and Klara Reif and grew up near the Prater.
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Frederick Reif's father committed suicide after he was forced to close his practice and was not permitted to work.
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Frederick Reif's family left Austria for Cuba after the Kristallnacht on the MS St Louis and was forced to return to Europe, where his mother, his sister, and himself disembarked in France, living as refugees under German occupation in Loudun before relocating to Limoges.
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Frederick Reif completed high school at Erasmus Hall High School and entered Columbia University, but was drafted into the army at age 18.
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Frederick Reif's thesis was on nuclear magnetic resonance in solid hydrogen.
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Frederick Reif joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1953, working with Enrico Fermi and Lothar Meyer.
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Frederick Reif was later hired as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1960 to 1989.
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Frederick Reif discovered gapless superconductivity, which was proposed by Alexei Abrikosov and Lev Gor'kov.
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Frederick Reif then joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and remained a faculty member until 2000.
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Frederick Reif is the author of popular textbooks such as Fundamentals of Thermal and Statistical Physics, Statistical Physics, and Understanding Basic Mechanics, and co-founded the first interdisciplinary PhD program in physics with Robert Karplus at Berkeley, The Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education, known informally as SESAME.
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Frederick Reif helped write one of the Berkeley Physics Course textbooks with funding from the National Science Foundation aimed to improve undergraduate teaching in physics.
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Frederick Reif was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Frederick Reif was a longtime resident of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania.
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Frederick Reif later married Laura Ott and then Jill H Larkin Wellman, his former Ph.
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Frederick Reif's sister Liane Reif-Lehrer, was a biochemist and professor at Harvard Medical School, and his niece is anthropologist Erica Lehrer.