Bruno Touschek
Bruno Touschek · Science & Medicine
Physicist; built the first electron-positron collider (AdA)
1921, Vienna, Austria — 1978, Innsbruck, Austria
Austria · Germany · Italy
Bruno Touschek is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; built the first electron-positron collider (AdA)
Bruno Touschek was an Austrian physicist who conceived and built AdA at Frascati in 1960, the first electron–positron storage-ring collider, establishing the technique behind every subsequent particle collider. Persecuted under the Nazis for his Jewish ancestry, he survived the war and pursued his career in Italy. His mother was Jewish.
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Physicist; built the first electron-positron collider (AdA)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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