Stanford University Department of Physics - Faculty: Walter E. Meyerhof

Walter E. Meyerhof

Professor (Emeritus)

Experimental Atomic Physics

Retired: 1992

Project Director for:
Varian Fry Foundation Project

Memoir, published 2002:
In the Shadow of Love: Stories From My Life

(Died May 27, 2006)

Stanford News Service article:
Walter Meyerhof, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 84

Memorial Information:

The Physics Department is sad to report the news that Prof. Walter E. Meyerhof passed away on May 27, 2006. He died peacefully, at the age of 84, of complications from Parkinson's disease.

A memorial service will be held on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 3:00 PM in the Main Dining Room of the Stanford Faculty Club.

Donations may be made to:

Varian Fry Foundation Project
c/o Prof. Justus Rosenberg, Faculty,
Division of Languages and Literature
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

Funeral arrangements made by
Spanger Mortuary
650 Live Oak Ave.
Menlo Park, Ca. 94025

Dr. Walter E. Meyerhof passed away peacefully on May 27, 2006. He was 84 years old. He was born in Kiel, Germany in the same year that his father won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Following the family's flight from Germany, Meyerhof settled in the United States where he became Professor of Physics for 43 years.

3:50 PM 7/21/2006,
Message from Miriam Meyerhof:

Dear Friends,

    I was overwhelmed with your kind wishes of condolence, and I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

    They have helped me so much in this difficult time.

                                      Miriam

Career History

M.A, 1944, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., 1946, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1946-49
Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 1949-52
Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 1952-59
Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 1959-1992
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Stanford University, 1992-present
Lloyd Dinkelspiel Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1977
Tenured Faculty Development Award, Stanford University, 1977-78
Honorary Doctorate, University of Frankfurt, 1980
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, U.S. Senior Scientist, 1980-81

Research Interests

Study of inner-shell electronic excitation, ionization, capture, and electron-positron pair-production in MeV/N to GeV/N collisions. Threshold effects in positron scattering at eV energies.