Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove · Science & Medicine
Nuclear physicist and definitive authority on light-nuclei energy levels; National Medal of Science (2007)
1926, Berlin, Germany — 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Germany · United States
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Nuclear physicist and definitive authority on light-nuclei energy levels; National Medal of Science (2007)
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove was a nuclear physicist whose exhaustive, regularly updated compilations of the energy levels of light nuclei became an indispensable global reference, earning her the U.S. National Medal of Science in 2007. Born to a Jewish family that fled Nazi persecution across Europe, her Jewish background is documented. She was Jewish.
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Nuclear physicist and definitive authority on light-nuclei energy levels; National Medal of Science (2007)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
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