Ladislas Goldstein (February 6, 1906 – July 15, 1994) was professor of Electrical Engineering at the

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(1951–72) and visiting professor of

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at the University of Paris-Orsay (1957–58, 1963–64, 1967–68). He was born in

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. He received the BS degree from the College of the City of

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(1928), and a DSc in nuclear physics from the

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(1937). His research concentrated on the field of nuclear physics. He was notable for the application of gas-discharge phenomena in

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physics, microwave propagation in free electron media, and

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detection. In 1956 he was elected to Fellow of the

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. He won the 1958 MTT prize.

References

* ''Proceedings IRE'', 49(12) p. 1967, Dec. 1961.

External links

The Goldstein historical archive at the AIP

Goldstein's math genealogy

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldstein, Ladislas 1906 births 1994 deaths University of Illinois faculty University of Paris alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE Hungarian Jews 20th-century Hungarian physicists Hungarian nuclear physicists 20th-century American physicists American nuclear physicists Hungarian electrical engineers Jewish scientists Hungarian emigrants to the United States Jewish physicists Hungarian expatriates in France