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Dr. Karl F. Herzfeld - 1931
Dr. Karl F. Herzfeld, Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland, because of his achievements in the furthering of scientific
knowledge, was awarded in 1931, the Mendel Medal of Villanova College.
The Mendel Medal Bulletin. Villanova
College, Villanova, Pennsylvania, IV:II (1932).
Herzfeld, Karl Ferdinand, physicist; born in Vienna, Austria February 24, 1892;
son of Charles August (M.D.) and Camilla (Herzog) Herzfeld; Student Schottes
Gymnasium, Vienna, 1902-1910, University of Vienna, 1910-1912, University of
Zurich, 1912-1913, University of Gottingen, 1913-1914; Ph.D., University of
Vienna, 1914; D.Sc. honoris causa, Loyola College, Baltimore, 1932, Marquette
University, 1933; D.Sc. University of Maryland, 1956, Manhattan College, 1959;
hon. degrees Fordham University, 1960, Institute of Technology Stuttgart, 1962,
Catholic University of America, 1963, University of Notre Dame, 1965, Providence
College, 1965; married Regina Flannery, 1938. Privat-docent University of
Munich, 1920, a.o. professor, 1923; Speyer guest professor, Johns Hopkins, 1926,
professor of physics, 1926-1936, professor emeritus, 1968-1978. Served as 1st
lieutenant Austrian Army, 1914-1918. Recipient Mendel Medal, 1931; Secchi medal
Georgetown University, 1938; Certificate of Exceptional Service to Navy Ordnance
Development, 1946; Cardinal Gibbons medal, 1960; USN Meritorious Public Service
award, 1964; Papal Bene Merenti medal, 1965. Fellow American Physics Society,
A.A.A.S., Acoustical Society of America; member Washington Academy of Science,
Washington Philosophical Society, German Physics Society, American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Gamma
Alpha. K.C. Author: Kinetische Theorie der Waerme, 1925; Absorption and
Dispersion of Ultrasonic Waves (with T.A. Litovitz), 1959. Home: Washington,
D.C. Died June 3, 1978; interred Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Who Was Who in America. Volume VII,
1977-1981. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1981, p.270.
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