George Feher
| George Feher | |
|---|---|
| Born |
29 May 1924 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | biophysics |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Notable awards | Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2006/7) |
George Feher (born 29 May 1924) is an American biophysicist working at the University of California, San Diego.[1]
Birth and education
George Feher was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924.[2] His family-name is Hungarian and means white.When the Nazis came in, he made his way overland to Israel (then called Palestine.) He worked for the Jewish underground for Israel Independence. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor’s degree (1950), master’s degree (1951) and doctorate (1954).[3]
Academic career
After completing his PhD, he worked as a physicist at Bell Laboratories and Columbia University. In 1960, he became a professor of Physics at University of California, San Diego. Since then, he has been a professor at UCSD.
Research
His main research was to uncover the basic mechanisms for how plants and bacteria use photosynthesis to convert light into chemical energy. His contributions to science were the development of spectroscopic tools and their applications, in particular, to problems in biochemistry and biophysics.
Wolf Prize
In 2006/07, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry along with Ada Yonath of Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel for "ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis".[4]
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