David Shoenberg (born 4.01.1911) is an English experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1953). He was born in St Petersburg. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (1932). In 1935—73 he worked at the Mond Laboratory in Cambridge (director from 1947), and from 1944 also at the University of Cambridge (from 1973 professor and head of low-temperature physics at the Cavendish Laboratory).
His work was in the field of solid-state physics, low-temperature physics, superconductivity and magnetism. He discovered the de Haas — van Alphen effect in many metals, constructed (1939) its theory and used it to determine the shape and size of the Fermi surface of metals. Thanks to Shoenberg this effect became a powerful means of investigating the Fermi surface. In particular, he studied the energy spectrum of bismuth and determined its Fermi surface. He carried out pioneering research on the penetration depth of a magnetic field into a superconductor. He contributed to the study of the superconducting state.
The F. London Prize (1964).