Biography:George F. Koster
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Short description: American physicist (1927–2012)
George Fred Koster (1927–2012) was an American physicist.
Biography
Foster served in the United States Navy during World War II.[1] He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1951, titled The Effects of Configuration Interaction on the Hyperfine Structure, advised by Bernard Taub Feld at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] and later joined the MIT faculty. While teaching at MIT, Foster was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1962.[3]
Foster was married to Frances J. Grigg until her death in 2010.[4] The couple raised three children.[1][4] Foster died in Brookline, Massachusetts, in May 2012, aged 85.[1][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "George F. Koster". Boston Globe. 14–21 May 2012. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/george-koster-obituary?id=20881081.
- ↑ George F. Koster at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. https://aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=K&year=&unit_id=&institution=.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Frances J. Koster". Boston Globe. 19–20 March 2010. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/frances-koster-obituary?id=23450113.
- ↑ "George Koster, physics professor emeritus, dies at 85". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 21 May 2012. https://news.mit.edu/2012/obit-koster.
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