Benjamin Bederson Explained

Benjamin Bederson (November 15, 1921 – January 6, 2023) was an American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Background

Bederson graduated from City College of New York, Columbia University, and New York University.^[4] He worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a dean at New York University.^[5] From 1992 to 1996, he was an Editor-in-Chief of Physical Review.^[6]

In 1959, Bederson was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.^[7]

Bederson died on January 6, 2023, at the age of 101.^[8]

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