My Family History

Physicists in the Family

Blas CabreraPhysicist(1878-1945)

  • Ph.D, U. of Madrid (1901)

  • President U. of Madrid

  • Member of Solvang Conference

Physicists at the Solvang Conference:

Top Row: Dirac (11 from left), Pauli (5 from right), Fermi (2 from right), Heisenberg (far right)Bottom Row: M. Curie (5 from left), Einstein (5 from right), Cabrera (3 from right), Bohr (2 from right)
Nicolas CabreraPhysicist(1913-1989)

  • Ph.D., U. of Paris (1944)

  • Professor, U. of Virginia (1952-1968)

  • Professor, A.U. of Madrid (1968-1989)

  • Nicolas Cabrera Institute (1989)

Blas CabreraPhysicist(1946- present)

  • Ph.D., Stanford University (1975)

  • Professor, Stanford U. (1991-present)

  • AMS Fellow (1996)

  • Stanley G. Wojcicki Professor (2011)

  • WKH Panofsky Prize (2013)