Laszlo Adler
Laszlo Adler is an American physicist and a Taine McDougal Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is known for his work in Ultrasonics, Acousto-optics, and Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials. He is a holocaust survivor and has been active in scientific research for over 60 years. Early life and education Laszlo Adler was born in Debrecen, Hungary, on December 3, 1932, and became a Naturalized United States citizen in Flint, Michigan, in 1963. He received his BS in Physics and Mathematics from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, in 1956 and his MS in physics, under Egon A. Hiedeman, from Michigan State University in 1961. In 1969, he obtained a PhD in physics, under Mack A. Breazeale, from the University of Tennessee. Career From 1960 until 1964, Laszlo Adler was an assistant professor at General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan. At the University of Göttingen, he was a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow from 1964 until 1965. He became an instructor at the University of Tennessee in 1966, where he remained until 1980 and left as an associate professor to become a full professor at the Ohio State University in 1980. As