Boris Lazarevich Joffe

Boris Lasarewitsch Joffe ( Russian Борис Лазаревич Иоффе , English transcription Boris Ioffe ; born July 6, 1926 in Moscow ) is a Soviet or Russian physicist.

Life

Joffe was the son of a well-known urologist. Joffe began his studies in 1943, initially at the Institute for Railway Engineering due to the war . In 1945 he switched to studying physics at Lomonossow University and in 1947 became a student of Lew Landau , that is, he passed his exams for the theoretical minimum . After graduating (and graduating from Lomonosov University) in 1949, he went to the theory department of Laboratory 3 (TTL, later ITEP , then headed by Abram Isaakowitsch Alichanow ), where he worked under Isaak Jakowlewitsch Pomerantschuk , with whom he worked several times published. The research at Laboratory No. 3 back then was on heavy water reactors and elementary particle physics. Joffe worked then and later in both fields, the work on nuclear reactors being secret. In 1953 he received his habilitation with a theoretical thesis as part of the Soviet hydrogen bomb project (Russian doctorate). He stayed at ITEP as a professor. In the late 1960s, he was involved in the construction of the first nuclear reactor in Czechoslovakia , which went into operation in 1972.

In the 1950s he published important work on parity violation in the weak interaction (1957 with Lew Okun , A. Rudik) and in the 1960s on the influence of the strong interaction in weak decays like that of the kaon (1967) Necessity of the introduction of new physics (later done with the Charm-Quark and GIM mechanism ) demonstrated, and about deep inelastic scattering (1969). From the late 1970s onwards, he was primarily concerned with non-perturbation-theoretical aspects of quantum chromodynamics , for example making important advances in calculating the magnetic moments of baryons.

In 1994 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2007 he received the Tamm Prize .

Fonts

• with L. Lipatov, V. Khoze Hard processes. Phenomenology. Quark-Parton Model , North Holland 1984
• with L. Lipatov, VS Fadin Quantumchromodynamics- perturbative and non perturbative aspects , Cambridge University Press 2010
• Boris Joffe, Michail Schifman (editor) At the frontier of particle physics: Handbook of QCD , Volume 1, Boris Joffe Festschrift , World Scientific 2001 (including BV Geshkenbein Introducing Boris Ioffe , with a list of his publications and doctoral students)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Influence of the polarization of gamma radiation diffusing in relativistic plasmas. The work was secret. He did not publish the results until 1994
2. ↑ The Problem of partiy non conservation in the weak interactions , JETP, vol 32, 1957, p 396