Experimental Atomic Physics
Retired: 1992
Varian Fry Foundation Project
c/o Prof. Justus Rosenberg, Faculty,
Division of Languages and Literature
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
Dr. Walter E. Meyerhof passed away peacefully on May 27, 2006. He was 84 years old. He was born in Kiel, Germany in the same year that his father won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Following the family's flight from Germany, Meyerhof settled in the United States where he became Professor of Physics for 43 years.
CAREER HISTORY
Study of inner-shell electronic excitation, ionization, capture, and electron-positron pair-production in MeV/N to GeV/N collisions. Threshold effects in positron scattering at eV energies.