GEORGE SCHMIDT

Schmidt--George, August 1, 1926, died April 9, 2014. Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology for over 20 years, he was the author of one book and over 100 research papers mostly in an area of physics related to nuclear fusion. Some of his later papers were on chaos theory. He was born in Hungary near Budapest. During WWII he survived a forced labor camp in Yugoslavia and returned home to learn he had lost his entire family to the Holocaust. He sided with the rebellion during the Hungary 1956 uprising and became a refugee when the uprising failed. He then traveled with his wife Katalin to the new state of Israel where he taught at the Technion in Haifa for two years before emigrating to the United States.