Marcel Schein

Who was Marcel Schein?

Marcel Schein was a Slovakian-born American physicist. He is the father of former MIT professor Edgar Schein.

Schein studies at the universities of Vienna, Würzburg and Zurich, where he got his PhD with the best mark "magna cum laude". In the following years he taught at several European universities until 1938. Then he emigrated to the United States. At the University of Chicago he became a member of staff at the Institute of Physics. He was simple researcher from 1938 to 1943, then assistant professor from 1943 to 1945, associate professor until 1946, afterwards he became full professor. His main field on research was cosmic rays.