Eugene Guth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eugene Guth

American physicist

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1905

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1990

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Eugene Guth (August 21, 1905 – July 5, 1990) was an American physicist who made contributions to polymer physics and to nuclear and solid state physics.
He was awarded a Ph.D.
in Theoretical Physics by the University of Vienna in 1928.
He was a postdoctoral research associate with Wolfgang Pauli at the Austrian-German Science Foundation, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and University of Leipzig, with Werner Heisenberg from 1930 to 1931.
He was Professor at the University of Vienna (1932–1937) and the University of Notre Dame 1937-1955.
He was at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1955 to 1971.