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Eugene Feenberg, emeritus Wayman Crow Professor of Physics at Washington University, St Louis, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, died on 7 November at the age of 71. In a distinguished career of theoretical research spanning five decades, Feenberg made fundamental contributions to nuclear theory, approximation mathods and the theory of quantum fluids. He was one of the pioneers in the application methods and the theory of quantum mechanics to nuclear structure.
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Clark, J.W., Friedlander, M.W., Wigner, E.P. (2001). Obituary: Eugene Feenberg. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers, vol B / 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_22
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