Gregory Breit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gregory Breit

American physicist

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1899

Place of Birth: Mykolaiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1981

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Gregory Breit (Russian: ???????? ??????????? ?????-???????, Grigory Alfredovich Breit-Shneider; July 14, 1899, Mykolaiv, Kherson Governorate – September 13, 1981, Salem, Oregon) was a Russian-born Jewish American physicist and professor at NYU (1929–1934), U.
of Wisconsin–Madison (1934–1947), Yale (1947–1968), and Buffalo (1968–1973).
In 1921, he was Paul Ehrenfest's assistant in Leiden.