George Bernard Benedek (born 1 December 1928) is an American physicist and currently the Alfred H. Caspary Professor Emeritus of Physics and Biological Physics and of Health Sciences and Technology at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. He graduated BS in physics at

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

in 1949, AM in physics at

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in 1952 and PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1953; he was a doctoral student of

Edward Mills Purcell Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magn ...

Awards and Honors

He invented quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and in 1962 was made a

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. *American Physical Society Fellow (1962) *National Academy of Sciences Member (1981) *American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member (1988) *Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (APS) (1995) "For his outstanding invention of dynamic light scattering spectroscopy and its fundamental applications to critical phenomena, macromolecular transport, and ocular diseases." *The Vinci of Excellence "Science for Art" Prize (1995) *Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's (ARVO) Proctor Medal (1997) for "outstanding research in basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology"

References

1928 births Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty 21st-century American physicists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-physicist-stub