Mark Zemansky
| Mark Waldo Zemansky | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 5, 1900 New York City |
| Died | December 29, 1981 (aged 81) Teaneck, New Jersey |
| Residence | Teaneck, New Jersey |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Fields | physics |
| Institutions | City College of New York (1925-1967) |
| Alma mater | City College of New York (B.S., 1921) Columbia University (Ph.D., 1927) |
| Thesis | The Diffusion of Imprisoned Resonance Radiation In Mercury Vapor (1927) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Worthington Webb |
| Notable students | Benjamin Bederson, Sidney Borowitz, Lawrence Cranberg, Jay Gregory Dash, Bernard Feld, Herman Feshbach, Edward Gerjuoy, Robert L. Gluckstern, Herbert Goldstein, Morton Hamermesh, William Havens, Robert Herman, Robert Hofstadter, Leon M. Lederman, William Nierenberg, Arno Penzias, Frank Press, Julian Schwinger, Gary Steigman, Leonard Susskind |
| Known for | particle physics, atomic radiation and particle excitement, university teaching of physics, and co-author of a classic textbook of university physics |
| Notable awards | 1956 Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers |
| Spouse | Adele |
Mark Waldo Zemansky (May 5, 1900 – December 29, 1981) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at the City College of New York for decades and is best known for co-authoring University Physics, an introductory physics textbook, with Francis Sears. The book, first published in 1949, is often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky", although Hugh Young became a coauthor in 1973.
He grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn where his mother, Bessie Cohen Zemansky (1868–1946), helped to found a Reform temple, and his father, Dr. Abraham Philip Zemansky (d. 1932), an 1874 graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, was the one of the first attending physicians at Lebanon Hospital located in The Bronx, New York (later merged as Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center).
His twin brother, Abraham Philip Zemansky Jr. (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons '23), died in 1928 at age 28 of septicemia after a mastoid operation.
Zemansky graduated from City College of New York in 1921 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1927. His Ph.D. research and thesis was done under the supervision of Harold Worthington Webb (1884–1974) and his thesis was entitled "The Diffusion of Imprisoned Resonance Radiation In Mercury Vapor". It was published in the journal Physical Review in 1927.
In 1925, he joined the faculty of City College of New York.
Zemansky was a National Research Council fellow, at Princeton University from 1928 to 1930, then at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany from 1930 to 1931. The research he did during that time was in radiation and collision processes of gaseous atoms.
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