Herman Feshbach was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT.
15 Facts About Herman Feshbach
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Herman Feshbach was a member of the same family as Dr Murray Feshbach, the Sovietologist and retired Georgetown University professor.
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Herman Feshbach was invited to stay at MIT after he received his doctorate.
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Herman Feshbach remained on the physics faculty for over fifty years.
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In 1983, Herman Feshbach was named as an Institute Professor, the highest faculty honor at MIT.
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Herman Feshbach was active in the nuclear disarmament movement and was a founder and first chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Herman Feshbach became concerned about the condition of scientists behind the Iron Curtain, and worked to establish contacts between Western scientists and their Eastern Bloc counterparts.
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Herman Feshbach championed the cause of Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet refuseniks.
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Herman Feshbach first met Sakharov in the mid-1970s; Feshbach wrote about meeting Sakharov after his release from internal exile, in an article that appeared in Physics Today.
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Herman Feshbach was a strong believer in equality of opportunity, especially within the scientific community.
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Herman Feshbach worked to increase the number of women and minority members in both the physics department and at MIT in general.
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Herman Feshbach died of heart failure at Youville Hospital in Cambridge.
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Herman Feshbach joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1969 and was president of the American Physical Society from 1980 to 1981.
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In 1986, Herman Feshbach was awarded the National Medal of Science.
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The physics department has an endowed Herman Feshbach chair, established in 1999 to support theoretical physicists.