Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
NameMaximilian/ Max b’ Leopold Herzberger 
Birth17 Mar 1899, D, Berlin
Death9 Apr 1982, USA, New Orleans
OccupationProfessor Mathematica & Optica, Eastman/Kodak inventor
FatherLeopold b’ Jacob Herzberger (1870-1962)
MotherSofia/ Sonja b’ Max Berends (Berendt) (1876-1945)
Spouses
Marriage1925, D, ?
ChildrenRuth b’ Max (Confidential, Female)
Ursula b’ Max (Confidential, Female)
Hans-George b’ Max (Confidential, Male)
Notes for Maximilian/ Max b’ Leopold Herzberger
[NB: his Ph D Thesis was titled “Ueber Systeme hyperkomplexer Grössen” (Beteiligte Personen (Gutachter): Bieberbach; Schur. Datum der Verteidigung: 07.03.1923. Universität: Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät) --
His findings in. ophtalmologic optics led to several designs and constructions by the Zeiss Co. in Jena.” —
The name ’Superachromat’ was created by Max Herzberger in the early 1960s, christening his dream of a lens with perfect color correction even beyond the level of apochromats. --
“Dr. Max Herzberger, of the Eastman Kodak Company's research Laboratories in Rochester, NY, received the Frederic Ives Medal for 1962 from Dr. David L. MacAdam, of the Eastman Kodak Company, at right, President of the Optical Society of America. The medal, one of the highest awarded by the Optical Society, was conferred for Dr. Herzberger's 'outstanding contributions to optics and image formation.' --
Correspondence with Albert Einstein: Beginning 17.0.1934 until 2.2.1935 6 letters (to and fro) from Roterdam (H) to Princeton (E) -- Further 24.10.1935 1 letter from Princeton (E) to Philadelphia (H) -- then again 1.11.1937 until 1.11.1939 11 letters (to and fro) from Rochester (H) to Princeton (E) -- and further 9.6.1945 untill 31.12.1950 ca 20 letters (to and fro) between Rochester and Princeton.]
Wikipedia: In 1934, the Nazis deprived him from his professorship at Jena University and his contract with Zeiss. Leaving Germany with a "total of $10 in my pockets". he went initially to the Netherlands, where he was hosted by the Dutch physicist A.C.S. van Heel. [Leiden University]. After the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he emigrated with his family to Rochester (NY), where he became head of Eastman Kodak's optical research laboratories, arranged by Einstein. In 1940, he and his family became U.S. citizens. In 1945, he got the Cressy Morrison Award of the New York Academy of Sciences.
In 1954 he finished the development of the superachromat as the ultimately well-corrected lens for Kodak. In 1962, he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America. In 1965, he retired from his position at Kodak, and helped building a graduate institute for optics in Switzerland, until in 1968 he followed invitation of the University of New Orleans to teach at their Physics Department.
He held patents for an "apochromatic telescope objective having three air spaced components",and a "superachromatic objective".
His findings in. ophtalmologic optics led to several designs and constructions by the Zeiss Co. in Jena.” —
The name ’Superachromat’ was created by Max Herzberger in the early 1960s, christening his dream of a lens with perfect color correction even beyond the level of apochromats. --
“Dr. Max Herzberger, of the Eastman Kodak Company's research Laboratories in Rochester, NY, received the Frederic Ives Medal for 1962 from Dr. David L. MacAdam, of the Eastman Kodak Company, at right, President of the Optical Society of America. The medal, one of the highest awarded by the Optical Society, was conferred for Dr. Herzberger's 'outstanding contributions to optics and image formation.' --
Correspondence with Albert Einstein: Beginning 17.0.1934 until 2.2.1935 6 letters (to and fro) from Roterdam (H) to Princeton (E) -- Further 24.10.1935 1 letter from Princeton (E) to Philadelphia (H) -- then again 1.11.1937 until 1.11.1939 11 letters (to and fro) from Rochester (H) to Princeton (E) -- and further 9.6.1945 untill 31.12.1950 ca 20 letters (to and fro) between Rochester and Princeton.]
Wikipedia: In 1934, the Nazis deprived him from his professorship at Jena University and his contract with Zeiss. Leaving Germany with a "total of $10 in my pockets". he went initially to the Netherlands, where he was hosted by the Dutch physicist A.C.S. van Heel. [Leiden University]. After the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he emigrated with his family to Rochester (NY), where he became head of Eastman Kodak's optical research laboratories, arranged by Einstein. In 1940, he and his family became U.S. citizens. In 1945, he got the Cressy Morrison Award of the New York Academy of Sciences.
In 1954 he finished the development of the superachromat as the ultimately well-corrected lens for Kodak. In 1962, he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America. In 1965, he retired from his position at Kodak, and helped building a graduate institute for optics in Switzerland, until in 1968 he followed invitation of the University of New Orleans to teach at their Physics Department.
He held patents for an "apochromatic telescope objective having three air spaced components",and a "superachromatic objective".