Henry Primakoff
Henry Primakoff · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Primakoff effect and Holstein-Primakoff transformation
1914, Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1983, Philadelphia, United States
United States
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Henry Primakoff was an American theoretical physicist who discovered the Primakoff effect (photoproduction of neutral mesons in a nuclear electromagnetic field) and, with Theodore Holstein, devised the Holstein–Primakoff transformation for spin waves; he also advanced the theory of weak interactions and double beta decay. He was born into an assimilated Jewish merchant family in Odessa that emigrated to the United States in 1922.
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Physicist; the Primakoff effect and Holstein-Primakoff transformation
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