Torleif Ericson
Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson | |
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Born | November 2, 1930 Lund, Sweden | (age 93)
Alma mater | Lund University |
Known for | Ericson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz correction Ericson fluctuations |
Spouse | Magda Ericson |
Awards | Professors namn (Title of Professor), Sweden, 1976 Foreign member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 1990 |
Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson (born November 2, 1930) is a Swedish
Biography
Career
Ericson studied physics at Lund University, from where he obtained his PhD,[6] under the supervision of Ben Mottelson at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), in 1958.
Ericson held positions as a
from 1959 to 1960.Following he joined CERN’s Theory Division,[9] first as a fellow, and then as a staff member in 1962.[10] He was recruited by the Director-General, V. F. Weisskopf, as the theoretical interface between particle and nuclear physics.[2]
Sabbatical year 1969/70 at MIT.
Invited guest professor at
.Adjunct professor at Uppsala University from 1993 within the framework of CERN's collaboration with Member States.
Official retirement from CERN in 1995,[11] but still emeritus.[12]
Research contributions
Moving from MIT to Berkeley he wrote two papers[3][4] in which he predicted what later became known as 'Ericson fluctuations' and today is considered a prime example of quantum chaos.[8][13] Initially the idea was met with resistance. However, the prediction stimulated in a large number of nuclear reaction studies, as reviewed a few years later with Mayer-Kuckuk,[14] and Ericson continued to develop the consequences in depth in a series of articles.[15]
In 1963, Ericson, after an initiative by A. de-Shalit and V.F. Weisskopf, organised an international conference on high-energy physics and nuclear structure.[16] The meeting turned out to be of significant importance both for Ericson's own career and the development of this field, as a new branch of nuclear physics.[1][15][17] The conference series, later generally referred to as PANIC, was the start of the field interfacing nuclear and particle physics and has developed into a triennial event. The series is sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and has been going on since then.[18]
In the 1960's much information in this field came from
His interest in the quantitatively limits of pion physics in nuclei produced some of the most accurate and parameter-free descriptions of observables in the entire nuclear physics.[15][19]
He took interest in many different areas of physics. Together with
The activity on the interface between nuclear and particle physics led to that CERN set up various scientific committees,[23] in which Ericson was deeply involved.
Administrative activities
In his role as chairman of the Nuclear Structure Committee, Ericson proposed in 1964, to build an on-line isotope separator, which later has become known as
In addition to carry out his research, Ericson has taken on a series of managerial tasks. For several periods he filled the role as deputy leader for the CERN Theory Division, he chaired the CERN Nuclear Structure Committee, served as a member of the CERN Physics III Committee, Swedish Program Committee for Physics and in the
Awards and honors
- 1976: Title of Professor (Swedish: Professors namn) awarded by the Government of Sweden[34]
- 1990: Foreign member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters[35]
- 1990: Honorary professor, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute , Chinese Academy of Sciences[34]
- 1993: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences[36]
- 1994: Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
Private life
Ericson is married to the French physicist Magda Ericson since 1957. Together they have two adult children. The Ericsons reside in Geneva, Switzerland.[37]
Bibliography
Books
- 1991: The meson factories. Univ. California Press.[38]
- 1991: Piony i jadra. Moskva : Nauka, Russian translation of "Pions and nuclei" (1988).[39]
- 1988: Pions and nuclei. Clarendon Press.[40]
Articles
- Full list of articles indexed in Google Scholar, indexed in Inspire-HEP.
References
- ^ ISSN 1061-9127.
- ^ .
- ^ ISSN 0031-9007.
- ^ ISSN 0001-8732.
- ^ ISSN 0003-4916.
- ^ Ericson, Torleif (1958). Some statistical properties of excited nuclei. Lund University.
- ^ "This week's citation classic" (PDF). Current Contents (11). 16 March 1981. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
- ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
- ^ "INSPIRE: Torleif Ericson's author profile". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ CERN lays on birthday treat for the Ericsons. CERN Courier. December 2010. p. 41.
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "People | Department of Theoretical Physics". theory.cern. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ISBN 978-981-4490-82-5.
- PMID 5334731.
- ^ .
- ^ Ericson, Torleif Eric Oskar, ed. (1963). 1963 International Conference on High-energy Physics and Nuclear Structure: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 25 Feb - 1 Mar 1963. CERN Yellow Reports: Conference Proceedings. Geneva: CERN.
- ISBN 978-981-4550-75-8.
- ^ "Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2021". pos.sissa.it. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ISSN 0163-8998.
- .
- ^ Bernabeu, Jose (17 September 2010). "Electroweak interactions: Celebration in Honour of Magda and Torleif Ericson's 80th Birthday". CERN Document Server. See lecture after 28 minutes and 48 seconds.
- ISSN 0295-5075.
- ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
- ^ "ISOLDE | timeline.web.cern.ch". timeline.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
- ^ Ericson, Torleif (1964). Memorandum to the members of the NPRC on proposal of an isotope separator "on line" for the SC. CERN-NSC-64-2. Geneva: CERN.
- ^ "A 30-year adventure with heavy ions". CERN Courier. 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
- .
- ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
- .
- .
- ^ "Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
- S2CID 119579852.
- ^ .
- ^ "Members – Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten". scientiarum.fi. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ "Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Torleif Ericson". Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "Profs. Ericson Torleif and Magda (-Galula)". www.local.ch. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ISBN 978-0-520-07549-8.
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- ISBN 978-0-19-852008-5.
External links and further reading
- Celebration in Honour of Magda and Torleif Ericson's 80th Birthday
- Festschrift for Torleif Ericson
- Stroke, H. Henry (1999-04-23). The Physical Review: The First Hundred Years. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-56396-188-5.
- Brown, G.E. (1990). "The Ericson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz correction". Nuclear Physics A. 518 (1–2): 99–115. .