Arkady Migdal
Arkady Migdal · Science & Medicine
Physicist; nuclear many-body theory and the Migdal theorem
1911, Lida, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1991, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Soviet Union · United States
Arkady Migdal is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; nuclear many-body theory and the Migdal theorem
Migdal was a Soviet theoretical physicist equally at home in nuclear, particle and condensed-matter physics. He is remembered for Migdal's theorem on electron–phonon interactions and for his part in the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect describing reduced radiation at high energies. He is documented as being of Jewish descent and belonged to the Soviet school of theoretical physics before spending his final years in the United States.
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Physicist; nuclear many-body theory and the Migdal theorem
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