Philip Stehle

'''Philip McL. Stehle''' was an American physicist, professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburg, who worked as a theoretical physicist in the Manhattan Project under the leadership of J. R. Oppenheimer.

Personal life
Stehle was born on March 3, 1919. He grew up in Montreal, where his father, Raymond L. Stehle, was a professor of pharmacology and honorary medical librarian at McGill University. Her mother was Marie. In 1936, he moved to the United States to attend the University of Michigan. There he met Evelyn Hoole of Bronxville, New York, an artist. They married in 1942. They had three children. His wife died in 2012.

He took up furniture-making and produced beautiful pieces for family and friends, while his wife Evelyn became a painter. A skier and a squash-player, Stehle was known among his colleagues for his athleticism.

Stehle died of pneumonia April 29, 2013 in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, US.

Career
In 1940, Stehle earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan. He went on to earn his PhD at Princeton University.

During World War II, Stehle served in the army as a specialist working in the Manhattan Project's as a theoretical physicist.

After his discharge, Dr. Stehle taught for a year at the Harvard University Physics Department, then moved to University of Pittsburgh. Stehle was a member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1947 until his retirement in 1989 and twice served as its chairman.

At the time of his death, he was a professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.

He also held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Innsbruck on three occasions.

He is credited with having set the physics department at the University of Pittsburgh on a productive track of research, for which he was awarded an honorary degree. He is the author of three books on physics and a book on the history of physics in the early twentieth century.

Books

 * Classical Mechanics
 * Order, Chaos, Order: The Transition from Classical to Quantum Physics
 * Solutions manual to accompany Physics: The behavior of particles
 * Physics: the behavior of particles. Harper's Physics Series.
 * Quantum Mechanics
 * From Classical to Quantum Physics