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Michael Nauenberg

Michael Nauenberg
http://physics.ucsc.edu/~michael/
University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Michael Nauenberg (1934–2019) was an emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His interests were in the foundations of quantum mechanics, experiments and theory in fluid dynamic, and on the history of physics in the 17-18th centuries.

Education

  • B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956
  • Ph.D. Physics, Cornell University, 1960

Professional Positions

  • 1995-1996 Van der Waals Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam, and visiting physicist at the University of Leiden
  • 1994-present Emeritus and Research Professor  of Physics at University of California, Santa Cruz
  • 1981-1983  Deputy director  of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, at UC Santa Barbara
  • Winter and  Spring 1983  Visitor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Paris, Orsay, France
  • 1988-1994 Director of the Institute of Nonlinear Science at University of California, Santa Cruz
  • 1989-1990 Visiting Professor at the University of Paris and at the Ecole Normale Superiore, Paris, France
  • 1989 Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 1980 Visiting Scientist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 1973-1974 Visiting Professor at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 1967-1968 Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, Orsay, France
  • 1966-1994 Professor of Physics at University of California, Santa Cruz
  • 1964-1966 Visiting  Physicist at SLAC and Stanford  Physics dept.
  • 1961-1965 Assistant Professor of Physics, Columbia University
  • 1960-1961 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Honors and Awards

  • 2013 Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award of the University of California
  • 2001 Visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Como, Italy
  • 1995-1996 Van der Waals visiting Professorship at the University of Amsterdam
  • 1989-1990 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
  • 1970 Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 1964-1966 A. P. Sloan Fellowship
  • 1963-1964 J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship

Appointments

  • 2006 Chair, Pais Prize committee of the American Physical Society
  • 2005 Vice chair, Pais Prize committee of the American Physical Society
  • 2004-2007 Member of the executive commitee of the Forum for the history of physics of the American Physical Society
  • 2004-2008 Member of the resources letter editorial board of the American Association of Phyisics Teachers
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