Max Dresden (April 23, 1918, Amsterdam – October 29, 1997, Palo Alto) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist and historian of physics.
He is known for his research in "statistical mechanics, superconductivity, quantum field theory, and elementary particle physics.
[6] He was from 1946 to 1957 a faculty member of the physics department of the University of Kansas, where he was eventually promoted to full professor.
[7] At various times during his career he held visiting positions at Fermilab, the Johns Hopkins University, the Argonne National Laboratory, the CERN, and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.
[8] His doctoral students include James T. Cushing, Martin Gutzwiller, Paul Halpern, and Jorge Zanelli.