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Aihud Pevsner

Aihud Pevsner was an American experimental physicist, born in Haifa, who led the research credited with discovering the Eta meson.

1925 to 2018Discovery of the Eta mesonExperimental particle physicsTeaching at Johns Hopkins University

Born: 18 December 1925, Haifa
Died: 17 June 2018
Occupation: physicist
Education: Columbia University

Aihud Pevsner was born in 1925 in Haifa

Pevsner was born in Haifa on December 18, 1925, to Yoshua Pevsner and Esther Ben-Yeshaia. His family was of Belarusian-Jewish descent. When he was 3, the family moved to the United States and settled in New York.

He served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1945, during World War II. In 1949 he married Lucille Wolf.

He earned a doctorate in physics at Columbia University and then taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1956 he joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He led the research credited with finding the Eta meson, naming it after the Greek letter matching the H in Hopkins.

He received 2 Guggenheim fellowships, was named a Fulbright Scholar and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1977 he was appointed Jacob L. Hain professor. He died on June 17, 2018.