Valentine Louis Telegdi

Abstract

On 8 April 2006, Valentine Louis Telegdi died in Pasadena, California, of complications following surgery for an aortic aneurysm. With his passing the physics community lost one of its most original and distinguished members. Val's contributions to our understanding of weak and electromagnetic interactions are seminal. Beyond those contributions, though, what made Val unique was the depth of his understanding of the theoretical fine points of the physics, which in his fundamental particle-physics experiments led him to beautiful and far from obvious ways of testing an idea. A Telegdi experiment was always marked as much by the conceptual cleverness of its design as by the importance of its results.

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