Magda Ericson
Magda Galula Ericson | |
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Born | December 18, 1929 Tunis, Tunisia | (age 91)
Alma mater | Sorbonne |
Known for | The Ericson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz correction |
Spouse(s) | Torleif Ericson |
Awards | Humboldt Prize 1992 Fulbright scholarship |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Particle physics Nuclear physics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Centre national de la recherche scientifique University of Lyon |
Magda Galula Ericson (born c. 1929[1][2]) is a French-Tunisian physicist.
Contributions[]
Ericson is known for her contributions to nuclear pion physics, which is a subfield of nuclear physics. She discovered the Lorentz-Lorenz-Ericson-Ericson effect of the pion-nuclear optical model within electroweak interactions,[3] alongside her future husband, , a nuclear physicist from Sweden.[4][5] She has also been one of the leading researchers on the interpretation of the EMC effect.[6][7]
Ericson continues her research to this day, although her husband has retired.[8]
Education and life[]
Magda received her PhD in experimental physics at the Sorbonne in 1958, working for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).[5][8] In 1959 she received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT. She has been a visiting CERN researcher since 1965.[9] Her cousin David Galula was a prominent military theorist.[10]
References[]
- ^ "Galula-Ericson, Magda (1929- )". VIAF.
- ^ "Marquis Biographies Online". search.marquiswhoswho.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
- ^ Ericson, Magda; Ericson, Torleif (February 18, 1966). "Optical properties of low-energy pions in nuclei" (PDF). Annals of Physics. 36 (3): 323–362. Bibcode:1966AnPhy..36..323E. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(66)90302-2.
- ^ Krige, J (1996). A History of CERN, III. 978-0444896551: Elsevier. p. 306. ISBN 978-0444896551.CS1 maint: location (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Magda Galula Ericson". CWP at UCLA. April 30, 1997. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ Ericson, Magda (1986). "The EMC Effect and the Swelling of Nucleons in Nuclei". The EMC effect and the swelling of nucleons in nuclei. Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei. pp. 382–392. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-71689-8_80. ISBN 978-3-642-71691-1.
- ^ Ericson, Magda (1986). "Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei, Pion Number and the EMC Effect". New Vistas in Nuclear Dynamics. NATO ASI Series. 139. pp. 163–189. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-5179-5_5. ISBN 978-1-4684-5181-8. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ Jump up to: a b "Faces and places: CERN lays on birthday treat for the Ericsons". CERN Courier. 50 (10): 41. December 2010.
- ^ Seghal, Rashme. "Discovering the universe, one particle at a time". Rediff. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ^ Marlow, Ann (August 2010). David Galula: His Life and Intellectual Context (PDF). Strategic Studies Institute. p. 21. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
External links[]
- 1929 births
- Living people
- Tunisian women physicists
- People associated with CERN
- 20th-century French physicists
- 20th-century French women scientists
- People from Tunis