George Benedek

George Bernard Benedek (born 1 December 1928) is an American physicist and currently the Alfred H. Caspary Professor Emeritus of Physics and Biological Physics and of Health Sciences and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1][2][3][4]

He graduated BS in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949, AM in physics at Harvard University in 1952 and PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1953; he was a doctoral student of Edward Mills Purcell.^[5]

Awards and Honors

He invented quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and in 1962 was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

• American Physical Society Fellow (1962)
• National Academy of Sciences Member (1981)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member (1988)
• Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (APS) (1995) "For his outstanding invention of dynamic light scattering spectroscopy and its fundamental applications to critical phenomena, macromolecular transport, and ocular diseases."
• The Vinci of Excellence "Science for Art" Prize (1995)
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's (ARVO) Proctor Medal (1997) for "outstanding research in basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology"^[6]