Comments on: Professor Peter T Landsberg http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/ Adventures in Imaging Deep-Sky Objects Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-4430 Greg Parker Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:08:51 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-4430 Dear Hermann, Sorry I can't answer any of your questions. It is a great pity I didn't write Peter's Biography - even though I couldn't find a publisher who was interested - we've lost a LOT of history. Peter's wife (still living) is Sylvia Landsberg, she lives in Southampton U.K. and is probably your best bet for information. Dear Hermann,
Sorry I can’t answer any of your questions. It is a great pity I didn’t write Peter’s Biography – even though I couldn’t find a publisher who was interested – we’ve lost a LOT of history. Peter’s wife (still living) is Sylvia Landsberg, she lives in Southampton U.K. and is probably your best bet for information.

]]> By: Hermann Kuehn http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-4428 Hermann Kuehn Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:32:07 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-4428 Dear Greg Parker, I just try to improve the german wikipedia entry about the grandfather of Peter T. Landsberg: Theodor Landsberg (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Landsberg) I gathered information about the ancestors of Theodor Landsberg, but finished with his father, a Rabbi at Hildesheim. Theodor had a brother, named Max Landsberg, a Rabbi in Rochester, and a sister (I don't know the first name) who married the mathematician Meyer Hamburger. Of course you know the father of Peter T. Landsberg, the architect Max Landsberg (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landsberg_%28Architekt%29). Can you help me with the first name and maiden name of the wife of Max Landsberg or the mother of Peter? Do you have access to the personal files of Peter? Can you help me with the first and maiden name of his grandmother? Best Wishes Hermann Kuehn Dear Greg Parker,
I just try to improve the german wikipedia entry about the grandfather of Peter T. Landsberg: Theodor Landsberg (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Landsberg)
I gathered information about the ancestors of Theodor Landsberg, but finished with his father, a Rabbi at Hildesheim.
Theodor had a brother, named Max Landsberg, a Rabbi in Rochester, and a sister (I don’t know the first name) who married the mathematician Meyer Hamburger.

Of course you know the father of Peter T. Landsberg, the architect Max Landsberg (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landsberg_%28Architekt%29).
Can you help me with the first name and maiden name of the wife of Max Landsberg or the mother of Peter?
Do you have access to the personal files of Peter? Can you help me with the first and maiden name of his grandmother?

Best Wishes Hermann Kuehn

]]> By: Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1141 Greg Parker Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:57:37 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1141 I have (only) two big regrets in my life (so far) and not writing Peter's biography is one of them. Greg O.K. the other regret was not going over to Boston U.S.A. to check out a job offer as I had only just started the job I was in (in Oxford) a couple of weeks earlier. I was made redundant from that job within the year! I have (only) two big regrets in my life (so far) and not writing Peter’s biography is one of them.
Greg

O.K. the other regret was not going over to Boston U.S.A. to check out a job offer as I had only just started the job I was in (in Oxford) a couple of weeks earlier. I was made redundant from that job within the year!

]]> By: William http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1123 William Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:26:57 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1123 I picked up "Seeking Ultimates" a few years ago as a complete physics newbie and enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm glad I found this post, I have always been curious about the guy... too bad that biography never happened :( I picked up “Seeking Ultimates” a few years ago as a complete physics newbie and enjoyed it quite a bit. I’m glad I found this post, I have always been curious about the guy… too bad that biography never happened :(

]]> By: Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 Greg Parker Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:57 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1045 Dear Olof - your mail seems to have been cut short :) Could you please resend and I will post it. Dear Christopher - Peter and I had many discussions on Time, it was "The Enigma of Time" that first introduced me to Peter Landsberg :) Something like 3 or 4 years ago, Peter was having a grand tidy up of all his papers and kindly gave me all his collected papers on Time (I was actually only after one by Godel, which was fortunately in the collection). Peter's funeral is at 1:30 p.m. this coming Friday and I will be attending. Dear Olof – your mail seems to have been cut short :) Could you please resend and I will post it.

Dear Christopher – Peter and I had many discussions on Time, it was “The Enigma of Time” that first introduced me to Peter Landsberg :) Something like 3 or 4 years ago, Peter was having a grand tidy up of all his papers and kindly gave me all his collected papers on Time (I was actually only after one by Godel, which was fortunately in the collection).

Peter’s funeral is at 1:30 p.m. this coming Friday and I will be attending.

]]> By: Christopher Essex http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 Christopher Essex Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:09:11 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1041 Those of us who knew Peter from his excursions to Telluride Colorado were very saddened to hear of his passing. In Telluride he and I once organized a workshop together entitled "Radiation Thermodynamics." I recall walking down a street there (where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once robbed the bank) while discussing how he felt that he lived in logarithmic time. Christopher Essex, Professor, and Associate Chair, Department of Applied Mathematics the University of Western Ontario London, Canada N6A 5B7 Those of us who knew Peter from his excursions to Telluride Colorado were very saddened to hear of his passing. In Telluride he and I once organized a workshop together entitled “Radiation Thermodynamics.” I recall walking down a street there (where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once robbed the bank) while discussing how he felt that he lived in logarithmic time.

Christopher Essex,
Professor,
and Associate Chair,
Department of Applied Mathematics
the University of Western Ontario
London, Canada N6A 5B7

]]> By: Olof Engstrom http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 Olof Engstrom Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:06 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1040 Dear Greg, I appreciate very much reading your story about Peter. I was looking for him on the web, found your place and realized that I was too late to contact him again. For me, Peter was a great teacher, mentor and coworker. I met him first time in the 70s when I was a PhD student at the University of Lund, Sweden. He was a great inspiration for me and I followed him in his tracks within thermodynamics and charge carrier statistics of semiconductors. We published two papers and a book chapter together. The last paper as late as 2007. I will never forget his brilliance and h Dear Greg,
I appreciate very much reading your story about Peter. I was looking for him on the web, found your place and realized that I was too late to contact him again. For me, Peter was a great teacher, mentor and coworker. I met him first time in the 70s when I was a PhD student at the University of Lund, Sweden. He was a great inspiration for me and I followed him in his tracks within thermodynamics and charge carrier statistics of semiconductors. We published two papers and a book chapter together. The last paper as late as 2007.

I will never forget his brilliance and h

]]> By: Greg Parker http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1031 Greg Parker Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:17:17 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1031 Dear Alan, Thank you for writing in re Peter Landsberg. Hindsight is always such a marvelous thing and I should have written Peter's biography even though there were no interested publishers at the time - I am responsible for the loss of a significant piece of history. All the best, Greg Dear Alan,
Thank you for writing in re Peter Landsberg. Hindsight is always such a marvelous thing and I should have written Peter’s biography even though there were no interested publishers at the time – I am responsible for the loss of a significant piece of history.
All the best,
Greg

]]> By: Alan Brier http://www.newforestobservatory.com/2010/02/15/professor-peter-t-landsberg/comment-page-1/#comment-1027 Alan Brier Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:01:55 +0000 http://www.newforestobservatory.com/?p=1116#comment-1027 Dear Greg Parker, my partner Brend Cheason and I (105 Brookvale Rd, Highfield) are also old friends and near neighbours of Peter and Sylvia Landsberg. I knew him as an open and generous member of what we were once pleased to call the University community. I think he mentioned to me your interest in writing his biography, and I read the two volumes on his former school in Berlin with interest. It was a great pleasure to experience Peter beginning again to speak German with me some 20 years ago, and being invited as a distinguished theoretical physicist to speak again a conferences in Germany. I hope we can manage to get together soon - I am returning today from Chennai, teaching a short course at the Indian College of Journalism - to exchange further memories of Peter and offer appropriate support to Sylvia. With best wishes (unbekannt, as we say) Alan Brier Former Dept. of Politics, Retd. Associate Member, NCRM, Southampton Dear Greg Parker,
my partner Brend Cheason and I (105 Brookvale Rd, Highfield) are also old friends and near neighbours of Peter and Sylvia Landsberg. I knew him as an open and generous member of what we were once pleased to call the University community. I think he mentioned to me your interest in writing his biography, and I read the two volumes on his former school in Berlin with interest. It was a great pleasure to experience Peter beginning again to speak German with me some 20 years ago, and being invited as a distinguished theoretical physicist to speak again a conferences in Germany. I hope we can manage to get together soon – I am returning today from Chennai, teaching a short course at the Indian College of Journalism – to exchange further memories of Peter and offer appropriate support to Sylvia.
With best wishes (unbekannt, as we say)
Alan Brier
Former Dept. of Politics, Retd.
Associate Member, NCRM, Southampton

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