CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:  George Feher

Date of Birth:  May 29, 1924; Place of Birth: Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Married;  three children

Education:

 

B.S.,

Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1950

M.S.,

Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1951

Ph.D.,

Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1954

Academic Career (Professional positions):

Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J. 1954-1960 (Research Physicist)

Columbia University, New York, N.J., 1959-1960 (Visiting Associate Professor)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Biology Dept.) Cambridge, MA, 1967-1968 (Visiting Professor)

University of California, San Diego, 1960-1992 (Professor of Physics)

University of California, San Diego, 1993 to present (Research Professor of Physics)

Memberships:

The American Physical Society; Sigma Xi; The Biophysical Society;

Board of Governors, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (since 1968);

Board of Governors, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (since 1988).

Academic Honors:

1960

Recipient of the American Physical Society Prize for origination and development of the Electron Nuclear Double Resonance (ENDOR) technique and for applying it to solid state and nuclear research problems

1961

Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

1975

Elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences

1976

Recipient of the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize

1977

Elected to membership in American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1981

Watkins Professor, Wichita State University

1982

Recipient of the American Physical Society Biophysics Prize for his contributions to the understanding of photosynthesis

1983

National Lecturer, Biophysical Society

1986

Elected Fellow to American Association for the Advancement of Science

1986

William Draper Harkins Lecturer, The University of Chicago

1986

The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer at the Univ. of Tel-Aviv, Israel

1991

Inaugural Gold Medal of the International Electron Spin Resonance Society

1992

Bruker Prize, Oxford University, England

1992

Recipient of the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1994

Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1996

Elected Fellow of the International EPR/ESR Society

1996

Zavoiski Award, Kazan, Russia

2000

Elected Fellow to the Biophysical Society

2007

Recipient of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel