Benjamin Abeles is a physicist whose research in the 1960s in the USA on germanium-silicon alloys led to the technology used to power space probes such as the Voyager spacecraft. He grew up in Austria and Czechoslovakia, arriving in the UK in 1939 on one of the kindertransport missions. He completed his education after the war in Czechoslovakia and Israel, obtaining a doctorate in physics. He then lived and worked as a research physicist in the USA, retiring in 1995. His honours include the 1979 Stuart Ballantine Medal and his induction into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1925 in   /  Died:   Dec 14th, 2020 - aged 94