Charles Kittel

Journal Article · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physics Today

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.3.4326· OSTI ID:1737577

Cohen, Marvin L. ^[1]; Cohen, Morrel H. ^[2]

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1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
2. Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

We discuss solid-state physicist Charles Kittel, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away peacefully at his home in Berkeley on 15 May 2019, two months before his 103rd birthday. Born in New York City on 18 July 1916, Charlie entered MIT in 1934. He moved to Cambridge University in 1936 and received his BA there two years later. He earned his PhD degree in 1941 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where his adviser was Gregory Breit. From 1940 to 1942, Charlie worked on problems in degaussing and magnetic mine warfare at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. He served in the US Navy as a research physicist at a British Admiralty research establishment in Scotland and as a naval attaché at the US Embassy in London; he went on to work on antisubmarine warfare and operations research in Washington, DC, and London. In 1945 he returned to MIT, taking a position in the Research Laboratory of Electronics.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1737577
• Journal Information: Physics Today, Journal Name: Physics Today Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 72; ISSN 0031-9228
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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