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Shmuel Sambursky (in English, Samuel Sambursky, 1900-1990) was an Israeli scientist and historian. He was born in Koenigsberg, (formerly in Germany) and studied physics before emigrating to Palestine in 1924. Sambursky joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1928. Paul Werskey notes that Sambursky's sense of history and sense of humor made him particularly successful as a lecturer in physics.[1] In 1945, the Mandatory government appointed him the executive director of the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, which was the precursor of the Research Council of Israel. Sambursky served as the Research Council of Israel's first director from 1949 to 1956, when he returned to the Hebrew University as dean of the faculty of science in 1957. After helping to establish a department of the history and philosophy of science there, he became a professor of the history of science, for which he was awarded the Israel Prize for Humanities in 1968.
Sambursky was brother to the composer Daniel Sambursky. He was married to Esther Rabinowitz[2], with whom he had a daughter, Shlomit (1928-2009). He was remarried in the late 1930s to Miriam Grunstein,[3] who predeceased him by 6 months.
Publications
- The Physical World of the Greeks
- Physics of the Stoics
- The Physical World of Late Antiquity
- Physical thought from the Presocratics to the quantum physicists
- Der Weg der Physik. 2500 Jahre physikalischen Denkens
- Three Aspects of the Historical Significance of Galileo
- "A Physicist Looks at Greek Science" review essay
References
edit- ^ Paul G. Werskey, "Sambursky, Samuel". Jewish Virtual Library accessdate=2009-08-14
- ^ http://pages.uoregon.edu/rkimble/Webgenealogy/Sambursky.html
- ^ http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/webgenealogy/Sambursky.html
http://www.idih.org/wiki/Shmuel_Sambursky Intellectual History