Valentine Louis Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint; 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-American physicist.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago[9] before he moved to ETH Zürich.
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| Born | Valentine Louis Telegdi January 11, 1922 |
| Died | April 8, 2006 (aged 84) |
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After retiring from ETH he divided his time between CERN and the California Institute of Technology. Telegdi chaired CERN's scientific policy committee from 1981 to 1983.[citation needed]
According to György Marx he was one of The Martians.[10]
Awards and honours
In 1991 he shared the Wolf Prize in Physics with Maurice Goldhaber.[citation needed] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2003.[1][11]
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