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| ===== Professor Isadore Amdur ===== | ===== Professor Isadore Amdur ===== | ||
| + | === Housemaster: | ||
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| + | **Isadore Amdur, Physical Chemist at MIT, Dies**\\ | ||
| + | Physics Today (August 1970)\\ | ||
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| + | Isadore Amdur, professor of physical chemistry at the | ||
| + | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died at the age | ||
| + | of 60 on 3 June following an operation. He was known | ||
| + | for his research on intermolecular forces with the | ||
| + | technique of scattering neutral atoms and molecules at | ||
| + | high energies and for his study of transport phenomena. | ||
| + | He was also the author of Chemical Kinetics. | ||
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| + | Educated at the University of Pittsburgh, Amdur | ||
| + | received his PhD there in 1932. He then joined MIT as a | ||
| + | National Research Fellow in Physical Chemistry and was | ||
| + | appointed as an instructor in 1934 and then as a | ||
| + | professor in 1951. During 1944-5 Amdur was associated | ||
| + | with the Manhattan District Project. Recently he was | ||
| + | named to the National Science Foundation Undergraduate | ||
| + | Science Advisory Committee. | ||