Shmuel Sambursky, or Samuel Sambursky (; 1900-1990) was a German, Palestinian, and Israeli physicist, professor, and author during the respective epochs of his country —Germany, Mandatory Palestine, and Israel.Samuel Sambursky (1900–1990)
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Early life and migration

Sambursky was born in

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30 October 1900. Educated in Germany,The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Samuel Sambursky, Dr. phil. Universität Königsberg 1923
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in 1924.

Academic career

He joined the physics faculty at The Hebrew University in

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in 1928, where he was a popular lecturer due to his sense of history and humorous lecture style. As the Executive Secretary of the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, which was established in 1945 by the Mandatory government, Sambursky remained at this institution, as the first director, when it became the Research Council of Israel, established in 1949. Remaining the Vice Chairman of the Research Council in 1957, Sambursky became dean of The Hebrew University's faculty of science, and in 1959 became professor of its department of the history and philosophy of science. Shmuel_Sambursky

Sambursky served

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from 1952 through 1954. Professor Sambursky was author and editor of multiple monographs on the history and philosophy of science, for

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.Sambursky, Samuel (1977) ''Place and Space in Late Neoplatonism'' In 1968 he received the Israel Prize for Humanities.

Death

Sambursky died 18 May 1990 in Jerusalem. He is buried in Har HaMenuchot.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sambursky, Shmuel Israeli physicists Scientists from Königsberg 1900 births 1990 deaths German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Burials at Har HaMenuchot