Robert Marshak
Robert Eugene Marshak (
October 11,
1916 â€"
December 23,
1992) was an American
physicist dedicated to learning, research, and education.
Marshak was born in the
Bronx,
New York City. His parents, Harry Marshak and Rose Marshak, were immigrant to New York from
Minsk.
In 1957, he and
George Sudarshan proposed a V-A ("vector" minus "axial vector")
Lagrangian for weak interactions, which was later independently discovered by
Richard Feynman and
Murray Gell-Mann.
He was the President of the
City College of New York from 1970-1979.
Marshak died by accidental drowning in
Cancun,
Mexico in 1992.
* http://spec.lib.vt.edu/marshk/bio.htm
* http://fermat.nap.edu/html/biomems/rmarshak.html
