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Herbert Frank York (born 24 November 1921) is an American nuclear physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
. He has held numerous United States government research and administrative positions and various educational institutes.

was born in Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
 where he received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Rochester
University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
 in 1943, and went on to obtain his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949.

York was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university in San Diego, California, California. The school's campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla, San Diego, California community....
 (1961-1964, 1970-1972) and U.S.






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Herbert Frank York (born 24 November 1921) is an American nuclear physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
. He has held numerous United States government research and administrative positions and various educational institutes.

Biography

York was born in Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
 where he received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Rochester
University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs....
 in 1943, and went on to obtain his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949.

York was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university in San Diego, California, California. The school's campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla, San Diego, California community....
 (1961-1964, 1970-1972) and U.S. ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban negotiations in Geneva
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, Switzerland
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 (1979-1981).

York is Director Emeritus of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UC San Diego and serves as chairman of the university's Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee, which oversees activities at both Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy United States Department of Energy National Labs, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico....
. He also serves on the board of the Council for a Livable World
Council for a Livable World

The Council for a Livable World is a non partisan, non profit policy organization focused on political action to reduce nuclear weapons and increase national security The Council was founded in 1962 by eminent nuclear physicist Leo Szilard and other scientists who worked in the pioneer days of atomic weapons and is located in Washington, D.C...
, a non partisan arms control organization in Washington, D.C. York occasionally guest lectures for the University of California San Diego and other institutions.

Publications

  • Arms Control (Readings from Scientific American (W.H. Freeman, 1973)
  • The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb (W.H. Freeman, 1976)*Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to Geneva (Harper & Row, 1987)
  • A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics and the Strategic Defense Initiative (U.C. Press, 1988, with Sanford Lakoff)
  • Arms and the Physicist (American Physical Society, 1994)


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