Article ID: CBB000932079

Giulio Racah and Theoretical Physics in Jerusalem (2009)

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Abstract The present article considers Giulio Racah's contributions to general physical theory and his establishment of theoretical physics as a discipline in Israel. Racah developed mathematical methods that are based on tensor operators and continuous groups. These methods revolutionized spectroscopy. Currently, these are essential research tools in atomic, nuclear and elementary particle physics. He himself applied them to modernizing theoretical atomic spectroscopy. Racah laid the foundations of theoretical physics in Israel. He educated several generations of Israeli physicists, and put Israel on the world map of physics.

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Authors & Contributors
Robotti, Nadia
Guerra, Francisco
David N. Schwartz
Hunten, Donald M.
Zangwill, Andrew
Stone, A. Douglas
Concepts
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Physics
Theoretical physics
Biographies
Spectroscopy
Quantum mechanics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Germany
Rome (Italy)
England
Sicily
United States
Portugal
Institutions
Universidade de Lisboa
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Universitet Kazan
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie
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