Donald Maurice Ginsberg was an American

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 physicist

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 and expert on superconductors.

Born in Chicago

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, Ginsberg attended University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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, earning a bachelor of arts

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 in 1952, a bachelor of science

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 in 1955, and a master of science

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 in 1956. He then earned his doctorate

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 in physics from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 in 1960. He taught at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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 from 1959 to 1996.

Ginsberg is noted for growing purified metallic crystalline compounds called YBCO. His five-volume Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors was influential in the field. He shared the 1998 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

He died of melanoma

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 at his home in Urbana, Illinois

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External links

• Donald M. Ginsberg page via University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign