Martin H. Krieger Explained

Martin Harvey Krieger (March 10, 1944 – July 17, 2024) was an American physicist, author, and emeritus professor with decades of teaching in public policy and urban planning. He was known for his research on mathematical models of urban phenomena, ecological issues of design and planning, notions of uncertainty in policy and planning, environmental policy, defense policy, and aural and visual documentation of urban phenomena in southern California, especially Los Angeles.[1] [2]

Life and career

Martin was born on March 10, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, and was brought up as an Orthodox Jew in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.[3] At Columbia University he graduated in physics with a B.A. magna cum laude in 1965, an M.A. in 1965, and a Ph.D. in 1969. His Ph.D. thesis is entitled Neutron Emission from Muon Capture.[4]

From 1968 to 1973 Krieger worked at the University of California, Berkeley — from 1968 to 1969 as a physicist at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, from 1969 to 1972 as an assistant research planner at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD, established in 1962), and from 1970 to 1973 at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design as a lecturer in environmental policy, in city and regional planning, and in architecture. From 1973 to 1974 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences adjacent to Stanford University. From 1974 to 1980 (with leave of absence from 1978 to 1980) he was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. From 1978 to 1979 he was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. From 1980 to 1984 he taught and did research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. At the University of Southern California (USC) he was an associate professor of planning from 1984 to 1991 and a full professor from 1991 until his retirement as professor emeritus. For the academic year 1990–1991 he was on leave of absence from USC and held a visiting associate professorship in business administration at the University of Michigan, as the Zell-Lurie Fellow in the Teaching of Entrepreneurship. He received many fellowships and grants for his research and contributed to numerous photographic exhibits. He was the author of ten books.[4]

From about 1998 to 2019, Krieger systematically photographed, among other topics: storefront houses of worship in Los Angeles (750+); all the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power electrical substations (125); the Orthodox Jewish enclave Pico-Robertson; industrial streetscapes in Los Angeles and then industrial worksites in Los Angeles (225), showing people at work; sellers at swap meets in Los Angeles, as entrepreneurs; "transit oriented development" in neighborhoods surrounding New York City Subway Stations (75), and a similar but more limited project internationally, at first in Barcelona and Singapore (project ceased due to 2020 quarantines).

In another project, Krieger and collaborators rephotographed Paris scenes that were originally photographed by Charles Marville (1813–1879), before and after photographs as Paris was reconstructed under Baron Haussmann and Napoleon III.

In the latter part of this period, Krieger recorded in calibrated and accurate surround sound: people talking on the bus in Los Angeles; the ambience in various sites in Los Angeles; worship services at storefront houses of worship, among other projects.

The visual and aural research was supported by grants from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. Much of the photographic material is archived at calisphere.org under "Martin Krieger Collection."[5]

Krieger received the USC-Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring three times: in 2005, in 2006, and in 2007, for mentoring, respectively, undergraduates, faculty, and graduate students.[4] In 2006 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for "his series of books on the historical development of models and the mathematics employed in twentieth-century physics, especially the Ising model and its relatives and the proofs of the stability of matter."[6] Martin died on July 17, 2024, at the age of 80.[7]

Selected publications

Articles

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 90th Anniversary Research Symposium: A Conversation on the Work of Martin Krieger. December 4, 2019. USC Price. YouTube.
  2. Web site: Martin H. Krieger, Professor Emeritus. Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California (USC).
  3. Krieger, Martin H.. Among others. Judaism. 48. 4. Fall 1999. 481.
  4. Web site: Curriculum Vitae, Martin H. Krieger, Professor of Planning. June 2015. Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California (USC). (with lists of exhibits, books, articles in scholarly journals, and book chapters)
  5. Web site: Martin Krieger Collection. Calisphere, University of California.
  6. Web site: APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. (search on year=2006 and institution=University of Southern California)
  7. Web site: Emeritus professor Martin H. Krieger has passed away . July 17, 2024 . restaurant-chez-richard.fr . July 17, 2024.
  8. Book: Books: Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena by Martin H. Krieger (9780226453057), Best Reviews 2022 .
  9. Web site: Review of Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy. Roberts, David P.. November 3, 2003. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America .
  10. Web site: John Mason. Promoting Mathematical Think ... the Home of John Mason & Anne Watson (pmtheta.com).
  11. Steiner, Frederick. A Review of Urban Tomographies by Martin H. Krieger. Journal of the American Planning Association. 2011. 77. 3. 293–294. 10.1080/01944363.2011.588559. 153998850 .
  12. Gribbin, John. John Gribbin. Review of Doing Physics by Martin H. Krieger. August 14, 1993. New Scientist.
  13. Web site: Review of Doing Physics by Martin H. Krieger. June 1992. Publishers Weekly.
  14. Gump, Steven E.. Review of The Scholar's Survival Manual: A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators by Martin H. Krieger. Journal of Scholarly Publishing. 45. 4. 2014. 418–423.

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