Valentine Louis Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint; 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-American physicist.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago[9] before he moved to ETH Zürich.
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| Born | Valentine Louis Telegdi January 11, 1922 |
| Died | April 8, 2006 (aged 84) |
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After retiring from ETH he divided his time between CERN and the California Institute of Technology. Telegdi chaired CERN's scientific policy committee from 1981 to 1983.[citation needed]
According to György Marx he was one of The Martians.[10]
Awards and honours
editIn 1991 he shared the Wolf Prize in Physics with Maurice Goldhaber.[citation needed] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2003.[1][11]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Brown, Laurie M. (2009). "Valentine Louis Telegdi. 11 January 1922 -- 8 April 2006". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 55. London: Royal Society: 291–304. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2009.0012.
- ^ "Royal Society elections recognize research in particles and waves". CERN Courier. 43 (8): 36. October 2003.
- ^ Lippincott, S. (2007). "A Conversation with Valentine L.Telegdi – Part I". Physics in Perspective. 9 (4): 434–467. Bibcode:2007PhP.....9..434L. doi:10.1007/s00016-006-0306-2. S2CID 120739806.
- ^ Lippincott, S. (2008). "A Conversation with Valentine L.Telegdi – Part II". Physics in Perspective. 10 (1): 77–109. Bibcode:2008PhP....10...77L. doi:10.1007/s00016-006-0307-1. S2CID 195338719.
- ^ "Array of Contemporary American Physicists | Valentine Telegdi". Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ^ Laurie M. Brown. "Valentine Louis Telegdi: 1922-2006, Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ^ Ericson, Torleif; Freudenreich, Klaus; Martin, André (September 2006). "Valentine L Tegledi 1922-2006". CERN Courier. 46 (7): 49.
- ^ "Scientific publications of Valentine Telegdi publications". inspirehep.net. INSPIRE-HEP.
- ^ Bargmann, V.; Telegdi, V. L. (1959). "Precession of the Polarization of Particles Moving in a Homogeneous Electromagnetic Field". Physical Review Letters. 2 (10): 435–436. Bibcode:1959PhRvL...2..435B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.2.435.
- ^ A marslakók legendája Archived 2022-04-09 at the Wayback Machine - György Marx
- ^ Cabibbo, Nicola; Freund, Peter G. O.; Gell-Mann, Murray; Goldberger, Marvin L.; Nambu, Yoichiro; Oehme, Reinhard; Okun, Lev; Winston, Roland (July 2006). "Obituary: Valentine Louis Telegdi". Physics Today. 59 (7): 66–67. Bibcode:2006PhT....59g..66C. doi:10.1063/1.2337842.
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