Gersh Budker
Gersh Budker · Science & Medicine
Physicist; accelerator physics and electron cooling
1918, Murafa, Ukraine (Russian Empire) — 1977, Novosibirsk, USSR
Soviet Union (Moscow and Novosibirsk)
Gersh Budker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; accelerator physics and electron cooling
Gersh Budker was a Soviet Jewish physicist who pioneered accelerator physics and invented the technique of electron cooling, which sharpens particle beams and is now used at accelerators worldwide. He founded and led the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, one of the leading centers of accelerator science.
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Physicist; accelerator physics and electron cooling
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