Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician (1909–1965)
Giulio Racah
Born
February 9, 1909
Florence, Italy
Died
August 28, 1965 (1965-08-29) (aged 56)
Florence, Italy
Awards
Weizmann Prize (1953)
Giulio RacahThe Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem
Giulio (Yoel) Racah(Hebrew: ג'וליו (יואל) רקח; February 9, 1909 – August 28, 1965) was an Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician.[1] He was Acting President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1961 to 1962.[2]
The crater Racah on the Moon is named after him.[3]
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Giulio (Yoel) Racah (Hebrew: ג'וליו (יואל) רקח; February 9, 1909 – August 28, 1965) was an Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician. He was Acting...
terms of three parameters A, B and C which are known as the Racah parameters after GiulioRacah, who first described them. They are generally obtained empirically...
In mathematics, Racah polynomials are orthogonal polynomials named after GiulioRacah, as their orthogonality relations are equivalent to his orthogonality...
The Racah Institute of Physics (Hebrew: מכון רקח לפיסיקה) is an institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, part of the faculty of Mathematics and...
scientist Giulio Prosperetti (born 1946), Italian labor law scholar and judge Giulio Quercini (born 1941), Italian journalist and politician GiulioRacah (1909–1965)...
Isidor Isaac Rabi – Austria, United States (1898–1988) Nobel laureate GiulioRacah – Italian-Israeli (1909–1965) James Rainwater – United States (1917–1986)...
electrical engineer Robert Fano and uncle to physicist and mathematician GiulioRacah. Fano was an early writer in the area of finite projective spaces. In...
Paolo Mascagni Physicists Bernard H. Lavenda Carlo Matteucci Roy McWeeny GiulioRacah Gian-Carlo Wick Zoologist Enrica Calabresi In other fields: Economist...
Indian Luge Player Shiva Keshavan Francesco Milleri, CEO of Luxottica GiulioRacah, Acting President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mirella Levi...
city. Benjamin Mazar was President of the university from 1953 to 1961, GiulioRacah was Acting President from 1961 to 1962, and Eliahu Eilat was president...
at MIT. Fano's cousin, GiulioRacah, made great contributions to the quantum theory of angular momentum (well known as Racah algebra), and wrote a concise...
normalization is sometimes used as well, and is named Racah's normalization after GiulioRacah. It can be shown that all of the above normalized spherical...
The Racah seniority number (seniority quantum number) ν {\displaystyle \nu } was introduced by GiulioRacah for the classification of electrons in an...
mathematician Gino Fano, his older brother was the physicist Ugo Fano, and GiulioRacah was a cousin. Fano studied engineering as an undergraduate at the School...
University 1971 Fritz London Memorial Lecturer (Duke University) 1972 GiulioRacah Memorial Lecturer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 1974 Marchon Lecturer...
The Racah Lecture is annual memorial lecture given at The Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem commemorating Prof. Giulio Racah...
theoretical physicist, called the father of the modern field of chaos theory GiulioRacah (1909–1965), Italian-Israeli mathematician and physicist; Acting President...
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years from 1953 to 1961, following Selig Brodetsky and succeeded by GiulioRacah. In 1936 Mazar started the excavations of Beth Shearim, the first archaeological...
they moved to Rome, as well as Gilberto Bernardini, Enrico Persico, and GiulioRacah. In 1929, Rossi's first graduate student, Giuseppe Occhialini, was awarded...
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