David H. Frisch | |
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Born | |
Died | May 23, 1991 | (aged 73)
Nationality | American |
Education | Princeton |
Known for | Helped develop the atom bomb in World War II |
Spouse | Rose Epstein Frisch |
Awards | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Los Alamos |
Thesis | (1947) |
Doctoral advisor | Victor Weisskopf |
Doctoral students | George Smoot[1] |
David Henry Frisch (March 12, 1918 – May 23, 1991) was an American physicist who helped develop the atom bomb in World War II and later became active in the disarmament movement.[2] He was also the husband of Rose Epstein Frisch.
And Smoot himself can still vividly recall playing a practical joke on his graduate thesis advisor, MIT physics professor David Frisch.