Valentine Telegdi
- Born: January 11, 1922 (Budapest, Hungary)
- Died: April 8, 2006 (Pasadena, California)
Education
- 1946: MSc, University of Lausanne
- 1950: PhD, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1948–1948: University of Bristol, Visiting Member, H. H. Wills Laboratory
- 1950–1971: University of Chicago, Instructor to Professor
- 1950–1971: University of Chicago, Instructor to Professor
- 1971–1976: University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor
- 1976–1989: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Professor
Other Positions
- 1953–1953: California Institute of Technology, Visiting Research Fellow
- 1953–1954: Northwestern University, Lecturer
- 1959–1960: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), NSF and Ford Foundation Fellow
- 1966–1966: Harvard University, Loeb Visiting Professor
- 1978–2006: California Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1968: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1991: Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics
- 1995: American Physical Society, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
Oral History Interviews
- 2002: Available Online
Published Resources
Laurie M. Brown, "Valentine Louis Telegdi: 1922-2006", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Valentine L. Telegdi, "The Early Experiments Leading to the V-A Interaction," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 464-484
Sara Lippincott, "A Conversation with Valentine L. Telegdi, Part I," Physics in Perspective 9 (2007): 434-467
Sara Lippincott, "A Conversation with Valentine L. Telegdi, Part II," Physics in Perspective 10 (2008): 77-109
