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Name
  
Valentine Telegdi

Role
  
Physicist


Education
  
ETH Zurich

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Born
  
January 11, 1922Budapest, Hungary (
1922-01-11
)

Notable awards
  
Wolf Prize in Physics (1991)Lilienfeld Prize (1995)ForMemRSUnited States National Academy of Sciences member (1968)

Died
  

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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.

References

Valentine Telegdi Wikipedia


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