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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as SubjectIsadore Rudnick
Dates
May 8, 1917 – August 22, 1997
Authorized Form of Name
Rudnick, Isadore, 1917-
Additional Forms of Names
Rudnick, I. (Isadore), 1917-
Rudnick, Isidore, 1917-
Biography
Abstract
Isadore Rudnick was Professor of Physics at University of California, Los Angeles (1959-1987). Other institutional affiliations included Pennsylvania State University. His research interests included atmospheric sound propagation, attenuation of sound in soil, nonlinear distortion and attenuation of shockwaves in ducts and horns, acoustically induced streaming, modes of vibration of elastic bodies and attenuation of sound in seawater, shallow-water gravity waves, and superfluid hydrodynamics of liquid helium.
Important Dates
May 8, 1917Birth, New York (N.Y.).
1938Obtained BA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.).
1942Research Physicist, Brown University.
1942 – 1945Research Physicist, Duke University.
1944Obtained PhD in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.).
1945 – 1948Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University.
1948 – 1987Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics (1948-1958) and Professor of Physics (1959-1987), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.).
1957 – 1958Fulbright Fellow, Royal Institute of Technology, Copenhagen.
1965Fulbright Fellow, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
1969President, Acoustical Society of America.
1972Visiting Professor, University of Paris.
1973Visiting Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
1977Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo.
1979Visiting Professor, University of Nanjing.
1983Member, National Academy of Sciences.
August 22, 1997Death, Los Angeles (Calif.).
Occupation
Physical acoustician.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Colleagues
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Dawson, J. M. (John Myrick), 1930-
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Holstein, Theodore David, 1915-1985
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Both employed at University of California, Los Angeles.
Additional
Goodman, Ralph R.
Kapitsa, P. L. (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984
Institutions
Major Positions
Brown University. Department of Physics
Research Physicist.
Duke University. Department of Physics
Research Physicist.
Pennsylvania State University. Department of Physics
Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics.
Tekhniyon, Makhon tekhnologi le-Yisra'el
Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor.
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Physics
Obtained BA (1938) and PhD (1944). Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
President.
Jinling da xue
Visiting Professor.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member.
Tōkyō Daigaku
Visiting Professor.
Université de Paris
Visiting Professor.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Isadore Rudnick papers, circa 1945-1988.
University Research Library. Department of Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575, USA
Oral history interview with Isadore Rudnick, 1990 July 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Oral history interview with Ralph R. Goodman, 2007 September 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert S. Gales, 2000 March 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA