Person Shoenberg; David (1911 - 2004) Shoenberg David Schoenberg 1911 - 2004 British Male St Petersburg, Russia 04/01/1911 19110104 Cambridge 10/03/2004 20040310

Physicist Education: Emigrated to Britain in 1914 with his family; Latymer Upper School, London; Trinity College Cambridge - BSc (1929-1932) and PhD (1932-1934) Career: Began research career studying the riddle of superconductivity - the abrupt loss of all electrical resistance in certain metals when cooled to a critically low temperature near absolute zero, a laboratory observation made in 1911 by Dutch physicist Heike Kammerlingh Onnes - which became the abiding interest of his working life, coupled with a related phenomena involving magnetism, the de Haas-van Alphen effect, and thereby helped found a new branch of physics. His careeer started just as the Royal Society Mond Laboratory was established in Cambridge, having been built specially for the Russian scientist Peter Kapitza to work on very low-temerature pysics. He became University Lecturer in Physics (1944-1952), Reader in Physics (1952-1973), Professor of Physics (1973-1978), Head of the Low Temperature Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory (1973-1978), Cambridge University; Head of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory (1947-1973); Corporate Official Fellow (1947-1973), Life Fellow, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge; Fritz London Award for Low Temperature Physics (1964); Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982); Guthrie Lecture (1961); Krishnan Memorial Lecture (1988). A fluent Russian speaker, he was able to maintain contact with Russian academics during difficult times for exchanges by the international scientific community. Honours: MBE 1944 Son of Sir Isaac Shoenberg, distinguished inventor and electrical engineer who installed the first radio-braodcasting network in his native Russia. Moved to Britain in 1914, worked at EMI and directed the team which developed the first high-definition television system, used by the BBC for a pioneering public high-definition telecast from London in 1938; married (1940) Catherine Felicitee Fischmann (d 2003); one son and two daughters survive him Medals and prizes: Hughes Medal 1995 Lectures: Rutherford Memorial 1980 Fellow 19/03/1953 42 Sources: Obituaries in The Independent (16 March 2004), The Times (16 March 2004 and 23 March 2004), The Guardian (26 March 2004) Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 379-395, plate, by Sir Brian Pippard FRS References: 'Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1995' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 101-113 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Magnetic Oscillations in Metals (1938); 4 Jan 1911 - NA5281 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes bd1702f1-89ff-4a07-a47a-49a57859752c