CURRICULUM VITAE
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Name: George Feher |
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Date of Birth: May 29, 1924; Place of Birth: Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
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Married; three children |
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Education: |
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B.S., |
Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1950 |
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M.S., |
Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1951 |
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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)
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).
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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 |
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1961 |
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society |
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1975 |
Elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences |
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1976 |
Recipient of the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize |
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1977 |
Elected to membership in American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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1981 |
Watkins Professor, Wichita State University |
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1982 |
Recipient of the American Physical Society Biophysics Prize for his contributions to the understanding of photosynthesis |
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1983 |
National Lecturer, Biophysical Society |
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1986 |
Elected Fellow to American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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1986 |
William Draper Harkins Lecturer, The University of Chicago |
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1986 |
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer at the Univ. of Tel-Aviv, Israel |
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1991 |
Inaugural Gold Medal of the International Electron Spin Resonance Society |
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1992 |
Bruker Prize, Oxford University, England |
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1992 |
Recipient of the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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1994 |
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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1996 |
Elected Fellow of the International EPR/ESR Society |
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1996 |
Zavoiski Award, Kazan, Russia |
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2000 |
Elected Fellow to the Biophysical Society |
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2007 |
Recipient of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel |