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| Born | (1921-11-15)November 15, 1921 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 6, 2023(2023-01-06) (aged 101) |
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Benjamin Bederson (November 15, 1921 – January 6, 2023) was an American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project.
Background
Bederson graduated from City College of New York, Columbia University, and New York University. He worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a dean at New York University. From 1992 to 1996, he was an Editor-in-Chief of Physical Review.
In 1959, Bederson was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Bederson died on January 6, 2023, at the age of 101.
References
- "Benjamin Bederson". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- "From Army Private to Atomic Physicist: Benjamin Bederson Got the Chance of a Lifetime". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- Barron, James (2015-07-26). "A Manhattan Project Veteran Had a Unique View of Atomic Bomb Work". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- "Bederson, Benjamin". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- "Seven Decades Ago, A New, Enormous Kind Of Explosion". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- "Bederson Succeeds Lazarus as APS Editor in Chief". Physics Today. 45 (1): 61–62. 1992. Bibcode:1992PhT....45a..61.. doi:10.1063/1.2809490. ISSN 0031-9228.
- "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. American Physical Society. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
- "Dr. Benjamin Bederson Obituary: November 15, 1921 — January 6, 2023". www.bederson.org. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Works by Benjamin Bederson at Open Library
- Benjamin Bederson's Interview (2018) — Voices of the Manhattan Project
- Physics History Network: Benjamin Bederson
- Ben Bederson, The Manhattan Project, 2020 — The National WWII Museum