| RefNo | EC/2003/48 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Telegdi, Valentine Louis: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Printed form. Citation typed on a separate sheet and taped onto certificate. |
| Citation | Prof Telegdi has measured every property of the muon (m), often inventing radically new procedures, namely: the parity violation in the p-m-e decay chain; the m- mass; the positron spectrum from polarized m- decay; m- capture rates; the m-neutrino helicity, and the RF spectroscopy of muonium, all done with great simplicity and elegance. Perhaps his study (with a group from Argonne) of the asymmetries in polarised neutron decay has been his most informative work, yielding directly the structure of the b-decay coupling. He was first to observe KL® hyperons in emulsion, and to measure the Ko radius. The Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi equation describing spin motion has become standard textbook fare. |
| Extent | 2 sheets |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8705 | Telegdi; Valentine Louis (1922 - 2006) | 1922 - 2006 |