Biedenharn, L. C.

Lawrence Christian Biedenharn was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on November 18, 1922. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in absentia in 1944 while serving in the United States Army. He returned to MIT in 1946 and completed his Ph. D. in theoretical nuclear physics in 1950. After graduation, he worked as a research physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

His teaching career began when he was hired as an assistant professor at Yale University in 1952. He joined the faculty at Rice University in 1954 and became an assistant professor there in 1956. He became a full professor at Duke University in 1961. Upon becoming Emeritus in 1992, Biedenharn moved to the University of Texas at Austin where he continued to teach as an adjunct professor until his death from kidney cancer in 1996. Biedenharn supervised 24 Ph.D. students.

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