Hans Frauenfelder
Hans Frauenfelder | |
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| Born | July 28, 1922 |
| Died | July 10, 2022 (aged 99) Tesuque, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Perturbed angular correlation protein folding and dynamics |
| Awards | Max Delbruck Prize (1992) Richtmyer Memorial Award (1981) Racah Lecture (1984) Guggenheim Fellowship (1958) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Scherrer |
| Other academic advisors | Gregor Wentzel Wolfgang Pauli |
| Doctoral students | Harold Ralph Lewis |
Hans Frauenfelder (July 28, 1922 – July 10, 2022) was an American physicist and biophysicist notable for his discovery of perturbed angular correlation (PAC) in 1951. In the modern day, PAC spectroscopy is widely used in the study of condensed matter physics. Within biophysics, he is known for his experimental and theoretical research on the dynamical behavior of protein tertiary structure.