Leonard Benedict Loeb

Leonard Benedict Loeb
Born	(1891-09-16)September 16, 1891 Zürich, Switzerland
Died	June 17, 1978(1978-06-17) (aged 86) Monterey, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Known for	Gaseous electronics
Children	Anne Bredon
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Robert Andrews Millikan
Doctoral students	Norris Bradbury Arthur F. Kip

Leonard Benedict Loeb (September 16, 1891 – June 17, 1978) was a Swiss-born American physicist.^[1][2][3] He was the son of Jacques Loeb a German-born American physiologist and biologist. Leonard B. Loeb wrote a number of physics books, including Atomic Structure.^[4]

References

1. Varney, Robert N. (1978). "Leonard B. Loeb". Physics Today. 31 (12): 70–71. Bibcode:1978PhT....31l..70V. doi:10.1063/1.2994886. ISSN 0031-9228.
2. "Scientific Biographies: Leonard B. Loeb". American Institute of Physics. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
3. "Guide to the Leonard Benedict Loeb Papers, 1916-1970". Online Archive of California. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
4. Loeb, Leonard (1938). Atomic Structure (First ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

External links

• Leonard B. Loeb (March 2013). Fundamental Processes of Electrical Discharge in Gases. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-258-60430-1.
• Leonard B. Loeb (2004). The Kinetic Theory of Gases. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-49572-9.
• Leonard B. Loeb (March 2007). Fundamentals of Electricity & Magnetism. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-0733-5.
• Leonard Benedict Loeb at Find a Grave

Archival collections

• Leonard B. Loeb student notebooks, 1914-1915, Niels Bohr Library & Archives