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George Bernard Benedek (born 1 December 1928) is an American physicist currently the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Physics and Biological Physics and of Health Sciences and Technology Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated BS in Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949, AM in Physics at Harvard University in 1952 and PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1953; he was a doctoral student of Edward Mills Purcell.