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===== Professor Isadore Amdur =====
=== Housemaster: 1968 - 1969 ===

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**Isadore Amdur, Physical Chemist at MIT, Dies**\\
Physics Today (August 1970)\\
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3022314

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.

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.