Igal Talmi

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Igal Talmi (2003)

Igal Talmi (born January 31, 1925 in Kiev ) is an Israeli theoretical nuclear physicist .

Talmi immigrated to what was then Palestine with his family as early as 1925. They lived in the commune (" Moschaw ") Kfar Yehezkel, founded in 1921, near Afula in the Jezreel plain . Talmi attended high school in Tel Aviv (graduated in 1942) and studied physics from 1943 with Giulio Racah at the Hebrew University , where he graduated in 1947. From 1947 to 1949 he fought in the Haganah ( Palmach ) in the Israeli War of Independence. In 1949 he went to the ETH Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1952 under Wolfgang Pauli . From 1952 to 1954 he was a post-doc at Princeton University with Eugene Wigner . From 1954 he was like his colleague Amos de Shalit at the Weizmann Institute for Science , where he became a professor in 1958. From 1967 to 1976 he was head of the nuclear physics department at the Weizmann Institute (as the successor to de Shalit, who became director but died early in 1969). 1970 to 1984 he was dean of the physics faculty at the Weizmann Institute. In 1994 he retired. He was visiting professor at Princeton University, Stanford University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Yale University and the State University of New York (SUNY) , among others .

Talmi is best known for his work on the shell model of atomic nuclei, about which he wrote a textbook with de Shalit. In the 1980s he worked on the shell model basis of the interacting boson approximation .

In 1965 he and de Shalit received the Israel Prize for their work on the shell model. In 1962 he received the Weizmann Prize of the City of Tel Aviv , in 1971 the Rothschild Prize and in 2000 the Hans A. Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society . In 2003 he received the Israeli EMT Prize.

He was also involved in the Israeli nuclear engineering program. He was on the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.

Since 1963 he has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences , where he was chairman of the science department from 1974 to 1980 (chairman of the division of science). In 1972 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

He has been married since 1949 and has a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • with Amos de Shalit: Nuclear Shell Theory , Academic Press 1963, Dover 2004
  • Simple Models of Complex Nuclei: The Shell Model and the Interacting Boson Model , Harwood Academic Publishers 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Iacchello, Talmi Shell model foundations of the interacting Bose model , Reviews of Modern Physics, 1987, pp. 339-361, Talmi Shell model foundation of the Interacting Boson Model , in Wilkinson Progress in Nuclear and Particle Physics , Vol. 9, 1983 , Talmi Shell model basis of the Interacting Boson Model , Comments Nuclear Particle Physics 1983, p. 241
  2. ^ List of participants in the Israeli nuclear weapons program
personal data
SURNAME Talmi, Igal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli nuclear theoretical physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev