RARE \"Plasma Physicist\" Benjamin Lax Signed FDC Dated 1963 For Sale

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RARE \"Plasma Physicist\" Benjamin Lax Signed FDC Dated 1963:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Plasma Physicist" Benjamin Lax Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963. 

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Benjamin Lax (29

December 1915, Miskolc, Hungary – 21 April 2015, Newton, Massachusetts) was

a solid-state and plasma physicist.  Benjamin Lax immigrated in 1926 with his

family to the United States. After secondary education at Brooklyn's Boys High School,

he received in 1941 his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cooper Union. After being drafted into the US Army in 1942, he

was assigned to MIT's Radiation Laboratory to

work on the development of radar. He received in 1949 from MIT his Ph.D. under

Sanborn C. Brown with thesis The effect of magnetic field on the

breakdown of gases at high frequencies. Lax

joined in 1951 MIT's Lincoln Laboratory,

where he did research on semiconductors by studying their energy band structure

using cyclotron resonance. These pioneering studies of germanium and silicon

played an essential role in the development of semiconductor devices. Lax was a

co-inventor on an early patent for semiconductor lasers. He became in 1958 Head

of the Solid-State Division and in 1964 Associate Director of the Laboratory.

From 1960 to 1981 he was the director of the Francis Bitter National Magnet

Laboratory. From 1964 until his retirement in 1986 he was a physics professor

at MIT. In 1960, he was awarded the Oliver E.

Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for "his fundamental contributions

in microwave and infrared spectroscopy of semiconductors.” At MIT he supervised

the doctoral dissertations of 36 students. He was the co-author, with Kenneth J. Button, of the

1962 book “Microwave Ferrites and Ferrimagnetics”. He was elected in 1962 to

the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1969 to the National

Academy of Sciences in 1969. He was also elected in 1957 a Fellow of the

American Physical Society and in 1981 a Fellow of the American Association for

the Advancement of Science. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year

1981–1982. In 2009 he was inducted into The

Cooper Union Hall of Fame. He

was predeceased by his wife, Blossom Cohen Lax. Upon his death, he was survived

by two sons and a granddaughter.[ 

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