Eugene Feenberg (October 6, 1906 in Fort Smith, Arkansas – November 7, 1977) was an American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.
Upon the urging of one of his professors, C. P. Boner, Feenberg then went to Harvard University to study with Edwin C. Kemble for a doctorate in physics.
During this time at Harvard, he also contributed to advancing quantum theory, as Kemble, in the original 1937 edition of his book on the subject, thanked his former colleague Feenberg, along with others for suggestions and assistance.
[1] On recommendations from Wigner, Kemble, and I. I. Rabi, New York University hired Feenberg for its Washington Square College, where he would eventually rise to the rank of associate professor.
There, he drew on his studies of isomerism and nuclear structure and the nature of beta-decay transitions to provide the foundations for building a modern shell theory of the nucleus.