Arthur Bienenstock at 2017 National Science Board (cropped)

Arthur Bienenstock (born 1935) is

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of Photon Science at

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. He is also a member of the

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. He received his

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in 1955 and

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in 1957 from the

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United Sta ...

, and a

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in 1962 from

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. He was the former director of the

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from 1978 to 1998. He was Vice Provost and Dean of Research at Stanford University from 2003 until 2006. He is a former president of the

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, serving in that role in 2008, and was a recipient of the 2018

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External links

Oral history interview transcript for Arthur Bienenstock on 22 April 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

Artie Bienenstock: An Oral History
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2010.

References

1935 births Living people Stanford University Department of Applied Physics faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society Harvard University alumni Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni 21st-century American physicists 20th-century American physicists Presidents of the American Physical Society {{US-physicist-stub