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Sidney Fernbach (1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1991) was an American physicist.
Life
Fernbach studied physics at Temple University and the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a physicist in the USA.
Starting in 1952, he worked at the University of California Radiation Laboratory using computers to research nuclear weapons.
He was the originating editor of the book series Methods in Computational Physics and also of The Journal of Computational Physics. In 1992, the Sidney Fernbach Award was established after his death.
Awards
1987: W. Wallace McDowell Award
Works
Fernbach, Sidney & Taub, A.H. (1970). Computers and their role in the physical sciences. New York: Gordon and Breach. ISBN 0-677-14030-4.
References
External links
IEEE Computer Society: Sidney Fernbach
Interview with Fernbach