Gerhard Weissler, 71, USC Physicist, Dies
Gerhard L. Weissler, a professor of physics at USC from 1944 until 1988 and chairman of the university’s physics department from 1951 to 1956, died of cancer June 18 at his Encino home.
Weissler, 71, was expelled from his native Germany because of his politics while a student at the Technical University of Berlin and came to the United States as a graduate student in physics at UC Berkeley in 1939.
He was credited with making USC prominent in the fields of ultraviolet atomic and molecular spectroscopy and was a past director of the school’s Nuclear Accelerator Laboratory.
Survivors include his wife, Claire, and two sons.
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