David Saxon
David Saxon · Science & Medicine
Physicist; quantum scattering (Woods-Saxon potential)
1920, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA — 2005, Oakland, California, USA
United States (UCLA, University of California)
David Saxon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; quantum scattering (Woods-Saxon potential)
David S. Saxon was an American physicist known for the Woods–Saxon potential, a widely used model of the nuclear force in quantum scattering theory. He later became president of the University of California and chairman of the MIT Corporation. Born to a Jewish family in Saint Paul, he is documented among Jewish physicists.
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Physicist; quantum scattering (Woods-Saxon potential)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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