Valentine Telegdi

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Valentine Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint, 11 January, 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-born U.S. physicist.

He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich. 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. In 1991 he shared the Wolf prize with Maurice Goldhaber. He was a foreign member of the Royal Society.

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Wolf Prize in Physics Laureates
Chien-Shiung Wu (1978) • George Uhlenbeck / Giuseppe Occhialini (1979) • Michael Fisher / Leo Kadanoff / Kenneth G. Wilson (1980) • Freeman Dyson / Gerardus 't Hooft / Victor Weisskopf (1981) • Leon M. Lederman / Martin Lewis Perl (1982) • Erwin Hahn / Peter Hirsch / Theodore Maiman (1983) • Conyers Herring / Philippe Nozieres (1984) • Mitchell Feigenbaum / Albert J. Libchaber (1986) • Herbert Friedman / Bruno Rossi / Riccardo Giacconi (1987) • Roger Penrose / Stephen Hawking (1988) • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes / David J. Thouless (1990) • Maurice Goldhaber / Valentine Telegdi (1991) • Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (1992) • Benot Mandelbrot (1993) • Vitaly Ginzburg / Yoichiro Nambu (1994) • John Wheeler (1997) • Yakir Aharonov / Michael Berry (1998) • Dan Shechtman (1999) • Raymond Davis Jr. / Masatoshi Koshiba (2000) • Bertrand Halperin / Anthony Leggett (2002) • Robert Brout / Franois Englert / Peter Higgs (2004) • Daniel Kleppner (2005) • Albert Fert / Peter Grnberg (2006)
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Maurice Goldhaber
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George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch/U.S. (Indonesian-born) theoretical physicist. He introduced the concept of electron spin, which posits that electrons rotate on an axis, with Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, for which they were awarded the Max
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Giuseppe Occhialini (b. December 5, 1907 in Fossombrone, Pesaro, Italy; d. December 30, 1993) , Italian physicist, contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell (Nobel Prize for Physics).
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Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson
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Victor Weisskopf

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Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois.
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Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. His parents were Jewish emigrants to the US from the Polish area of Russia.
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Born 1921

Field Physics
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