Gaja Alaga

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Gaja Alaga , in some publications also Gajo Alaga , (born July 3, 1924 in Lemeš (today Svetozar Miletić in Northern Vojvodina ); † September 7, 1988 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav theoretical physicist .

biography

His family were Bunjewatzen from the Batschka . Alaga studied theoretical physics in Budapest and in Zagreb with Ivan Supek . After completing his studies, he worked at the Philosophical and Mathematical Faculty of the University of Zagreb and at the Rudjer Bošković Institute in the field of theoretical physics. Alaga then went abroad and worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen , at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

From 1968 he was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

In 1955, together with the Dane Aage Niels Bohr and the American Ben Roy Mottelson , who worked with Bohr in Copenhagen , he derived the selection rules for beta and gamma transitions in deformed atomic nuclei , the so-called Alaga rules .

Alaga was editor of the scientific journal Fizika until his death .

Literature by Gaja Alaga (selection)

  • Teorijska fizika i Struktura materije , 1988 (together with Ivan Supek and others)
  • G. Alaga, Paar, Sips (Editor): Problems of Vibrational Nuclei: Proceedings of the Topical Conference on Problems of Vibrational Nuclei . Elsevier, Zagreb 1974, ISBN 0-7204-0332-4
  • G. Alaga, K. Alder, Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson: Intensity Rules of beta and gamma Transitions to Nuclear Rotational States . In: Det Kongelike Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Matematisk-fysiske Meddelser , Volume 29, No. 9, 1955, pp. 1-22.
  • G. Alaga: New type of selection rules in beta decay of strongly deformed nuclei. In: Physical Review , Volume 100, 1955, pp. 432-433.
  • G. Alaga: Selection rules for beta and gamma particle transitions in strongly deformed nuclei. In: Nuclear Physics 4/1957, pp. 625-631.
  • G. Alaga: Beta-decay matrix elements in strongly deformed nuclei. In: Glasnik mat. fiz. i astr. , 12/1957, pp. 245-256.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Povijest hrvatskog plemstva u Bačkoj ( memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (the source was the websites of the Miroljub or Hrvatska riječ magazine )
personal data
SURNAME Alaga, Gaja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alaga, Gajo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemeš
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1988
Place of death Zagreb