Leopold Halpern 1925 – 2006

            physicist, humanitarian, environmentalist, naturalist, world traveler, friend


academic history

Not included in this list are short term visits (of a month or more) at The Institute of Fundamental Physics, Kyoto, Japan (1970), the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1973), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, California (1978), and the Universities of Amsterdam, Netherlands (1983) and Stockholm, Sweden (1985).


photos

Some photo memories (too few) from bob:

Google Image Search turned up the Dirac Symposium December, 2002 Photos:


Florida State University Physics Department Listing (where Leopold worked for about 20 years)

Halpern, Leopold          Scientist, Ph.D., University of Vienna, Austria
 Room: 606 KEN
 Phone: 4-5076
 E-mail: halpern at phy  
 
Received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, Austria with a thesis on experimental solid state physics 1952, won a Fulbright grant which he spent at R.P.I. 1952-1953. Began an advanced study of theoretical physics after which he became assistant of E. Schroedinger, then spent years of research at CERN, UNC, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Paris P.A.M., Dirac at FSU, the spent 1986-1988 at JPL of Caltech, returning to FSU 1988. His research interests are in the theory of Gravitation and its relations to quantum and Elementary Particle Physics.

 


Ani and I last saw Leopold at the GP-B launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base (California)  in April, 2004 and before that kept him company while he was eating some corn-on-the-cob late one evening sitting on a wall on the beach front street in Rio at MG10, July 2003. He will be sorely missed as the grandfather figure of the University of Rome relativistic astrophysics group G9 of Remo Ruffini, who connected us to him.

-- bob jantzen, villanova university, 2006


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