Valentine Telegdi#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1666 |
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| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1995 |
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Valentine Telegdi passed away April 8, 2006.
Positions Held
- California Institute of Technology
- 1978 - 1981 Member of the CERN Scientific Policy Board, 1981 - 1983 chairman
- Elected to the CERN Scientific Policy Committee and later its chairman
- 1976 Founder of the Laboratory for High Energy Physics, ETH Zürich
- 1972 - 1976 Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago
- 1951 - 1972 Instructor, University of Chicago
Fields of Scholarship
- Weak and electromagnetic interactions
Honours and Awards
- 1968 Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Wolf Prize in Physics (jointly with Maurice Goldhaber)
- 1995 Lilienfeld Prize
- 2003 Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)
