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Ernest Courant was born on 26 March, 1920 in Göttingen, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now in Lower Saxony, Germany), is an American physicist (1920–2020). Discover Ernest Courant's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 100 years old?

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Age 100 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 26 March 1920
Birthday 26 March
Birthplace Göttingen, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now in Lower Saxony, Germany)
Date of death 21 April, 2020
Died Place Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality Germany

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1920

Ernest Courant (March 26, 1920 – April 21, 2020) was an American accelerator physicist and a fundamental contributor to modern large-scale particle accelerator concepts.

Courant was born March 26, 1920, in Göttingen, Germany, the first of four children of Richard Courant and Nerina Runge Courant, a year after their marriage.

He wrote that he "came by science naturally".

His mother's father, Carl Runge, is credited with the Runge-Kutta method for numerical solutions of differential equations.

A maternal great-grandfather (Runge's father-in-law ) was Emil DuBois-Reymond, a pioneer in electrophysiology.

Affinity for science and mathematics extended further than his biological family.

Ernest Courant's childhood neighbors included the mathematician David Hilbert (his father's thesis director, in whose honor Ernest received the middle name of David) and the physicists Max Born and James Franck.

Further, his father's students and colleagues became friends of the family, and often visited.

Ernest's early interests centered on chemistry.

"I had a lab at home full of test tubes, Bunsen burners, and chemicals. Once there was a small fire (easily put out), but I got a sense of how things were put together."

1933

Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and the neighborhood and its intellectual society were disrupted—along with the mathematics department at the University.

Ernest's father had been born to a Jewish family of small businessmen, and he was now identified as a Jew, and an undesirable, by the new regime.

Expelled from his position at the University of Göttingen, Richard Courant took a temporary teaching position in England, and the family abandoned Göttingen in favor of Cambridge for a few months.

Forewarned by a Nazi acquaintance that the anti-Semitic storm would not settle but intensify, the family made plans to emigrate permanently.

They returned only briefly to Germany before embarking to New York City, where his father had secured a post at New York University—and immigration visas to the US.

1936

Courant graduated from the Fieldston School in 1936, received a physics degree from Swarthmore College, and earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Rochester in 1943.

1940

Ernest became an American citizen in 1940.

Fluent in English from both early lessons and the recent period enrolled at the Perse School in Cambridge, Ernest was accepted at the Fieldston School of the School for Ethical Culture, with a scholarship, thanks to intervention by family friend (and Fieldston alumnus), J. Robert Oppenheimer.

1948

Courant worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1948, first as an associate scientist in the Proton Synchrotron Division.

1952

His most notable discovery was his 1952 work with Milton S. Livingston and Hartland Snyder on the Strong focusing principle, a critical step in the development of modern particle accelerators like the synchrotron, though this work was preceded by that of Nicholas Christofilos.

Courant was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and remained active as a distinguished scientist emeritus at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

He played a part in the work of Brookhaven for sixty years and had also been mentor to several generations of students.

In this kind of generative academic influence, he can be compared to his father, the mathematician Richard Courant.

1955

He received tenure in 1955, and was promoted to senior scientist in 1960.

1966

In addition, he taught as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University from 1966 to 1986.

Together with Hartland Snyder, he developed the Courant–Snyder parameters, a method for analyzing the distribution of particles in an accelerator or beam line.

2020

He turned 100 in March 2020 and died the following month.