Polycarp Kusch

Polykarp Kusch (January 26, 1911 - March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955. Kusch received his undergraduate degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University in 1931 and his master's and doctoral degrees from Illinois College in 1933. After graduation, he worked as a professor at Columbia University. Ph.D. students he supervised during his time at Columbia University included Gordon Gould, who later invented the laser. Kusch taught at the University of Texas at Dallas from 1972 until his retirement in 1982.