Charles Elbaum (May 15, 1926 – March 4, 2018) was an American physicist. Charles Elbaum was born in

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...

, Poland to parents Chil and Hannah Elbaum. After

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, he moved to Belgium and Paris before earning a master's and doctorate from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

. In 1959, Elbaum began teaching at

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as an assistant professor of

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. Later, he was granted fellowship in the

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. Elbaum chaired the department of physics between 1980 and 1986, and was named the Hazard Professor of Physics in 1991. Along with colleague

Leon Cooper Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who, with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. His name is also associated with the Cooper pair and co-deve ...

, he founded the tech company ''Nestor'', dedicated to finding commercial applications for

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. He retired in 2001, staying on as a research professor.

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1926 births 2018 deaths Scientists from Lublin Polish emigrants to the United States American people of Polish-Jewish descent University of Toronto alumni Brown University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society 20th-century American physicists {{US-physicist-stub