László Tisza

László Tisza (July 7,ászló 1907 – April 15, 2009) was a Hungarian-born American physicist who was Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. He was a colleague of famed physicists Edward Teller, Lev Landau and Fritz London, and initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium.

United States

In 1941, Tisza immigrated to the United States and joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research areas included theoretical physics and the history and philosophy of science, specifically on the foundation of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. He taught at MIT until 1973.

Publications

Tisza was the author of the 1966 book, Generalized Thermodynamics. The 1982 publication, Physics as Natural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of László Tisza, was written by Tisza's colleagues and former students in honor of his 75th birthday.

Affiliations

He was a Fellow of The American Physical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and had been a visiting professor at the University of Paris in Sorbonne.

See also

Vera and Laszlo Tisza House

References

External links

MIT site – notice of Tisza's death

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship site

1907 births

2009 deaths

Scientists from Budapest

Hungarian emigrants to the United States

American centenarians

20th-century American educators

American science writers

20th-century Hungarian physicists

Hungarian centenarians

Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty

Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thermodynamics

Academic staff of the University of Paris

20th-century American non-fiction writers

20th-century American physicists

Fellows of the American Physical Society

Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

20th-century American male writers

American male non-fiction writers

Men centenarians