Mendelssohn Kurt

German-born British medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951. In 1974, he published The Riddle of the Pyramids, in which he sought to explain the whys and wherefores of the earliest Egyptian pyramids. He was a great-great-grandson of Saul Mendelssohn, the younger brother of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. He received a doctorate in physics from the University of Berlin, having studied under Max Planck, Walther Nernst, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein. Leaving Germany at the advent of the Nazi regime in 1933, he went to England. He worked at the University of Oxford from 1933. His scientific work included low temperature physics, transuranic elements, and medical physics. He was awarded the Royal Societys Hughes Medal in 1967 and the Simon Memorial Prize in 1968. He died on 18 September 1980 at age 74 in Oxford. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less