Gregory Breit

Gregory Breit built his career quietly moving between physics departments — New York University, Wisconsin, Yale, and Buffalo — after beginning as Paul Ehrenfest's assistant at Leiden in 1921. Born Grigory Shneider in Mykolaiv in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), he anglicized his name on emigrating to the United States, going on to hold professorships spanning five decades of American academic physics.