Remembering Herb Steiner

Remembering Herb Steiner

Our colleague Herbert Steiner passed away on January 15, 2025, at the age of 97. Herb was an accomplished experimental particle physicist with diverse interests. Herb was born in Göppingen, Germany in 1927. He and his family immigrated to the US in 1938, settling in San Francisco. In 1947 he entered U.C. Berkeley as an undergraduate, and he began his graduate studies in 1951. In 1956, with his Ph.D. in hand, he became a research physicist at the U.C. Radiation Laboratory (now the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and a lecturer in the U.C. Berkeley Department of Physics. In 1961 he joined the Berkeley Physics faculty and, from 1992 to 1995, served as the chair of the department. In 2000 he became professor emeritus.

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