Giulio Racah
Giulio Racah · Science & Medicine
Physicist; Racah coefficients and atomic spectroscopy theory
1909, Florence, Italy — 1965, Florence, Italy
Italy · Israel
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Giulio Racah was an Italian-Israeli physicist whose Racah coefficients and algebra transformed the theory of atomic spectroscopy and the quantum mechanics of angular momentum. Forced from Italy by the Fascist racial laws, he emigrated to Palestine and built the physics department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was born into an old Italian Jewish family in Florence.
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Physicist; Racah coefficients and atomic spectroscopy theory
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