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Benjamin Widom is an American physical chemist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. He was born on October 13, 1927 in New York City. Widom is best known for his work on the statistical mechanics of fluids and polymers. Widom received his B.S. in chemistry from City College of New York in 1948 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard University in 1952. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 1952 to 1954. He then joined the faculty at Cornell University, where he remained until his retirement in 1997. Widom has received numerous awards and honors, including the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1962), the American Physical Society's Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy (1966), the American Chemical Society Award in Physical Chemistry (1970), the American Physical Society's Irving Langmuir Prize (1975), and the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences (1995). Widom is 96 years old. He has not shared about He's parent's name. Our team currently working, we will update Family, Sibling, Spouse and Children's information. Right now, we don't have much information about Education Life. Widom's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & much more details has been updated below. Let's check, How Rich is Benjamin Widom in 2021? Benjamin Widom's Net Worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned most of his wealth from his successful career as a physical chemist and professor.

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1945

Widom was born in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from New York City's Stuyvesant High School in 1945, and received his BA from Columbia University in 1949, followed by his PhD from Cornell in 1953. He became an instructor of chemistry at Cornell in 1954, was appointed assistant professor in 1955 and a full professor in 1963. He was chair of the chemistry department between 1978 and 1981. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1974 and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979.

1927

Benjamin Widom (born 13 October 1927) is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. His research interests include physical chemistry and statistical mechanics. In 1998, Widom was awarded the Boltzmann Medal "for his illuminating studies of the statistical mechanics of fluids and fluid mixtures and their interfacial properties, especially his clear and general formulation of scaling hypotheses for the equation of state and surface tensions of fluids near critical points."