Robert Marshak
- Born: October 11, 1916 (New York, New York)
- Died: December 23, 1992 (Cancun, Mexico)
Education
- 1936: AB, Columbia University
- 1939: PhD, Cornell University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1939–1950: University of Rochester, Instructor to Professor of Physics
- 1950–1964: University of Rochester, Harris Professor of Physics
- 1964–1970: University of Rochester, Distinguished University Professor
- 1970–1979: City University of New York, President, City College
- 1979–1987: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, University Distinguished Professor
- 1987–1992: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Emeritus University Distinguished Professor
Other Positions
- 1942–1943: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Physicist
- 1943–1944: United Kingdom Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Physicist, Montreal Branch
- 1944–1946: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Deputy Group Leader
- 1948–1948: Institute for Advanced Study, Member
- 1950–1964: University of Rochester, Chair, Department of Physics
- 1953–1954: University of Paris, Sorbonne, Guggenheim Fellow
- 1960–1961: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Guggenheim Fellow and Guest Professor
- 1983–1983: American Physical Society, President
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1957–1963: Secretary, High Energy Physics Commission, International Union for Pure and Applied Physics
- 1963–1966: Member, Committee on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, National Academy of Sciences
- 1967–1975: Member, Science Council, International Center for Theoretical Physics
- 1968–1972: Member, United States-Japan Science Committee
- 1971–1973: Member, Executive Committee, United States National Commission, UNESCO
- 1971–1974: Member, Council, National Academy of Sciences
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, University Libraries, Special Collections, Blacksburg, Virginia
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1970: Available Online
Published Resources
Ernest M. Henley and Harry Lustig, "Robert Eugene Marshak: 1916-1992", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Robert E. Marshak, "The Rochester Conferences: The Rise of International Cooperation in High Energy Physics," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists June (1970): 92-98.
E. C. G. Sudarshan, ed., A Gift of Prophecy: Essays in Celebration of the Life of Robert Marshak (New Jersey: World Scientific, 1994)
Robert E. Marshak, "Particle Physics in Rapid Transition: 1947-1952," in The Birth of Particle Physics, ed. Laurie M. Brown and Lillian Hoddeson (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1983), 376-401
Robert E. Marshak, "Scientific Impact of the First Decade of the Rochester Conferences (1950-1960)," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 645-667
