Spouse Torleif Ericson Name Magda Ericson | Alma mater Sorbonne | |
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Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
University of Lyon Known for The Ericson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz correction Notable awards Humboldt Prize 1992
Fulbright scholarship Fields Particle physics, Nuclear physics Institution Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, University of Lyon | ||
Magda Galula Ericson (born c. 1929) is a Tunisian and Algerian physicist.
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Contributions
Ericson is known for her contributions to nuclear pion physics, which is a subfield of nuclear physics. She discovered the Lorentz-Lorenz-Ericson-Ericson effect of the pion-nuclear optical model within electroweak interactions, alongside her future husband, Torleif Ericson, a nuclear physicist from Sweden. She has also been one of the leading researchers on the interpretation of the EMC effect.
Ericson continues her research to this day, although her husband has retired. She is eligible for, but has not been awarded, a Nobel Prize.
Education and life
Magda received her PhD in experimental physics at the Sorbonne in 1958, working for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 1959 she received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT. She has been a visiting CERN researcher since 1965. Her cousin David Galula was a prominent military theorist.