George Benedek
George Benedek | |
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| Born | December 1, 1928 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupations | Physicist Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Inventor of quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy |
George Bernard Benedek (born December 1, 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.
He graduated BS in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949, AM in physics at Harvard University in 1952 and PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1953; he was a doctoral student of Edward Mills Purcell.