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Marcel Schein (June 9, 1902 – February 20, 1960) was a Slovak-born American
Marcel Schein was born in Trstená,
Collected Papers at the University of Chicago
* http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!6587~!0&profile=newcustom-icos * https://web.archive.org/web/20070208073557/http://physics.syr.edu/~rsholmes/genealogy.html (biography) * https://archive.today/20040818091217/http://www.astrocosmo.cl/astrofis/astrofis-03_06.htm (Italian)
Guide to the Marcel Schein Papers 1929-1960
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physicist
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, best known for his work on cosmic ray
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s. He is the father of former MIT professor Edgar Schein.
Biography
Marcel Schein was born in Trstená, Kingdom of Hungary
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on June 9, 1902.
He died in Chicago
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on February 20, 1960, and was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery.
Education and career
Schein studied at the universities ofVienna
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, Würzburg
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and Zurich, where he got his PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
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with the best mark, ''magna cum laude''. In the following years he taught at several European universities. In 1938, he emigrated to the United States
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where he joined the University of Chicago
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's Institute of Physics
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as staff researcher. In 1943, he joined the university's faculty. He was promoted to a full professor three years later in 1946.
Bibliography
* ''Problems incosmic ray
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physics'', 1946
See also
* ScheinReferences
External links
* *Collected Papers at the University of Chicago
* http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!6587~!0&profile=newcustom-icos * https://web.archive.org/web/20070208073557/http://physics.syr.edu/~rsholmes/genealogy.html (biography) * https://archive.today/20040818091217/http://www.astrocosmo.cl/astrofis/astrofis-03_06.htm (Italian)
Guide to the Marcel Schein Papers 1929-1960
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University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
1902 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Slovak people 20th-century Hungarian physicists Slovak physicists American nuclear physicists Czech nuclear physicists American people of Slovak descent Jewish American scientists Jewish physicists 20th-century American physicists Academic staff of ETH Zurich 20th-century American Jews {{Slovakia-bio-stub