Valentine Telegdi#


Valentine Telegdi
Sadly, this member passed away.
Membership Number:1666
Membership type:
Section:PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Elected:1995
Main Country of Residence:


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)


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