Aihud Pevsner (December 18, 1925 – June 17, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who was the lead researcher credited with the discovery of the Eta meson.
[1] Born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, to Yoshua Pevsner and Esther Ben-Yeshaia, Aihud Pevsner immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of three.
Pevsner served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1945, and married Lucille Wolf in 1949.
Upon earning a doctorate in physics from Columbia University, he began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1] He was the lead researcher credited with the discovery of the Eta meson, and appointed a Jacob L. Hain professor in 1977.