Valentine Telegdi

Valentine Louis "Val" Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint; 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-American physicist.^[1][2][3][4] He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich.^[3]

Valentine Telegdi
Telegdi between 1976 and 1980
Born	Valentine Louis Telegdi (1922-01-11)January 11, 1922 Budapest, Hungary
Died	April 8, 2006(2006-04-08) (aged 84) Pasadena, California, United States
Awards	Wolf Prize in Physics (1991) Lilienfeld Prize (1995) ForMemRS[1] United States National Academy of Sciences member (1968)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Chicago ETH Zürich CERN California Institute of Technology

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.^[5] He was chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators, a working group of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, from 1983 to 1986.^[6]

According to György Marx he was one of The Martians.^[7]

Awards and honours

In 1991 he shared the Wolf Prize in Physics with Maurice Goldhaber "for their separate seminal contributions to nuclear and particle physics, particularly those concerning the weak interactions involving leptons".^[8] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2003.^[1][9]

Further reading

• Lippincott, S. (2007). "A Conversation with Valentine L.Telegdi – Part I". Physics in Perspective. 9 (4): 434–467. Bibcode:2007PhP.....9..434L. doi:10.1007/s00016-006-0306-2. S2CID 120739806.
• Lippincott, S. (2008). "A Conversation with Valentine L.Telegdi – Part II". Physics in Perspective. 10 (1): 77–109. Bibcode:2008PhP....10...77L. doi:10.1007/s00016-006-0307-1. S2CID 195338719.
• Winter, K. (1988). Festi-Val: Festschrift for Val Telegdi. Festi-Val, a symposium in honour of Val Telegdi. Geneva (Switzerland). North-Holland.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)