Benjamin Bederson (November 15, 1921 – January 6, 2023) was an American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project.
Background Bederson graduated from City College of New York, Columbia University, and New York University. He worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a dean at New York University. From 1992 to 1996, he was an Editor-in-Chief of Physical Review. In 1959, Bederson was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Bederson died on January 6, 2023, at the age of 101.
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External links Appearances on C-SPAN Works by Benjamin Bederson at Open Library Benjamin Bederson's Interview (2018) — Voices of the Manhattan Project Physics History Network: Benjamin Bederson Ben Bederson, The Manhattan Project, 2020 — The National WWII Museum