Name Valentine Telegdi Role Physicist | Education ETH Zurich Awards Wolf Prize in Physics | |
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Born January 11, 1922
Budapest, Hungary ( 1922-01-11 ) Institutions University of Chicago, ETH Zurich, CERN, California Institute of Technology. Notable awards Wolf Prize in Physics (1991)
Lilienfeld Prize (1995)
ForMemRS
United States National Academy of Sciences member (1968) Died April 8, 2006, Pasadena, California, United States | ||
Valentine Telegdi | Wikipedia audio article
Valentine Louis 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.
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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.
Awards and honours
In 1991 he shared the Wolf Prize in Physics with Maurice Goldhaber. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2003.
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