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Leonard Isaac Schiff was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on March 29, 1915[1] and died on January 21, 1971 in Stanford, California. He was a physicist best known for his book Quantum Mechanics.[2][3]
Education
Leonard Schiff entered Ohio State University at age 14.[4] Schiff received his B.S. & M.S. from Ohio State University and his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1937.
Career
Schiff was a theoretical physicist who, after completing his doctorate, worked as a research associate for two years at the University of California and the California Institute of Technology. From 1940-1945 he was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1945-1947, he worked at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and joined the physics faculty at Stanford University in 1947.[5]
In 1948, Schiff became one of the initial directors of Varian Associates who provided technical support to the company, along with Edward Ginzton, William Hansen, and Marvin Chodorow.[6]
In the late 1959 and 1960 Schiff and fellow physicist George Pugh wrote papers which advocated using orbiting gyroscopes to test general relativity. Schiff teamed with fellow Stanford faculty Bob Cannon and Bill Fairbank to conduct research that provided part of the foundation for the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) to test Einstein's theory of relativity.[7] [8]
Schiff was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 1957.[9] In 1966, he received the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers.[2] Also, he received the Dinkelspiel Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford University.[10]
Family
Leonard Schiff was the son of Edward and Mathilda Schiff and was of Lithuanian Jewish descent.[4] He married Francis Ballard in 1941.[11] They were the parents of two children: Leonard Schiff and Ellen Schiff. His wife was a cousin of Artemus Ginzton who was married to Schiff's friend and colleague Edward Ginzton.[4]
References
- ^ Bloch, Felix (1983), "LEONARD ISAAC SCHIFF", Biographical Memoirs, vol. 54, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, pp. 300–323, ISBN 0-309-03391-8, retrieved 2009-09-22
- ^ a b http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SchiffL.pdf
- ^ Seitz, Frederick (1950). "Review: L. I. Schiff, Quantum Mechanics". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (2): 191–192. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1950-09377-x.
- ^ a b c http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jpritchard/bios/schiff.htm
- ^ http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf609nb1db;developer=local;query=;style=oac4;doc.view=entire_text
- ^ http://www.varianinc.com/cgi-bin/nav?/corp/history
- ^ http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/168809main_gpb_nutshell-0506.pdf
- ^ Will, Clifford M. (1986). Was Einstein right?: putting general relativity to the test. New York, NY: BasicBooks. pp. 238–239. ISBN 0-465-09088-5. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ "Members". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ^ http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf609nb1db;developer=local;query=;style=oac4
- ^ http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=577&page=307
External links
- http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=577&page=300 National Academies Press Biography - Leonard Schiff
- http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf609nb1db;developer=local;query=;style=oac4 Guide to the Leonard I. Schiff Papers, 1948–1971
- http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Schiff%2c+Leonard+I. Leonard I. Schiff, The Free Dictionary
- http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/history/# Quantum Mechanics and Leonard Schiff
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