Donald Ginsberg
Donald Maurice Ginsberg (November 19 1933–May 7 2007) was an American physicist and expert on superconductors.
Born in Chicago, Ginsberg attended University of Chicago, earning a bachelor of arts in 1952, a bachelor of science in 1955, and a master of science in 1956. He then earned his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960. He taught at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1959 to 1996.
Ginsberg is noted for growing purified metallic crystalline compounds called YBCO. His five-volume Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors was influential in the field.
He died of melanoma at his home in Urbana, Illinois.[1]
References
- ^ Pearce, Jeremy (May 19, 2007). Donald M. Ginsberg, 73, Expert in the Working of Superconductors, Is Dead. New York Times
External links
- Donald M. Ginsberg page via University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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