Theodore H. Geballe

Theodore Henry Geballe (January 20, 1920 – October 23, 2021) was an American physicist who was a professor of applied physics at Stanford University. He was known for his work on the synthesis of novel materials of interest to several areas of physics and many interdisciplinary sciences.

Biography Theodore Geballe was born and brought up in a Jewish family in San Francisco, California, the son of Alice (Glaser) and Oscar Geballe. His grandfather left the Province of Posen in Prussia to move to the United States in about 1870. He attended the Galileo High School in San Francisco, graduating in 1937.

Awards and honors Geballe, along with Bernd Matthias won the 1970 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize awarded by the American Physical Society "for experiments that challenged theoretical understanding and opened up the technology of high-field superconductors." Geballe also won the 1991 Von Hippel Award by the Materials Research Society, and was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

In 1989, he received the Bernd T. Matthias Prize.

In 2000, the new Laboratory for Advanced Materials at Stanford was named "The Theodore H. Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials" in his honor.

Personal life Geballe was married to Frances Koshland (1921–2019), daughter of Daniel E. Koshland Sr. and granddaughter of Abraham Haas. They have six children: Gordon Theodore Geballe, Alison Frances Geballe, Adam Phillip Geballe, Monica Ruth Geballe, Jennifer Corinne Geballe and Ernest Henry Geballe. He has 16 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

He died at his home in Woodside, California, on October 23, 2021, at the age of 101.