Tisza, Laszlo, 1907-2009
Ls̀zl ̤Tisza papers, circa 1920-2000.
Collection contains correspondence, biographical materials, interview transcripts, published and unpublished materials, photographs, medals, and course notes. Correspondents include Philip Anderson, Edmond Bauer, Felix Bloch, Aage Bohr, Max Born, Max Delbruck, Steven Glashow, Maria Goeppert, Gerhard Herzberg, Alfred Kastler, Rezso Kunfalvi, Edwin Land, Fritz London, Robert Mulliken, Robert Oppenheimer, David Saxon, Jack Steinberger, Gyuri Szekeres, Edward Teller, John Van Vleck, Eugene Wigner, and Kenneth Wilson.
Laszlo Tisza, born in 1907 in Budapest, immigrated to the United States in 1941 and joined the MIT faculty. He taught at MIT until 1973, specializing in theoretical physics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics and statistical physics. Tisza was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a John Simon Guggenheim fellow. In 1966, he published "Generalized Thermodynamics."
Tisza, Laszlo, 1907-2009
Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-
Bauer, Edmond
Bloch, Felix, 1905-1983-
Bohr, Aage
Born, Max, 1882-1970
Delbr ck, Max.
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972
Herzberg, Gerhard, 1904-1999
Kastler, Alfred
Land, Alfred, 1888-
London, Fritz, 1900-1954
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Saxon, David S.
Steinberger, J.
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013
Correspondence.
Interviews.
Medals.
Photographs.
AIP-ICOS
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