Magda Ericson

Magda Galula Ericson (born c. 1929[1][2]) is a French-Tunisian physicist.

Magda Galula Ericson
BornDecember 18, 1929 (1929-12-18) (age 90)
Tunis, Tunisia
Alma materSorbonne
Known forThe Ericson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz correction
Spouse(s)Torleif Ericson
AwardsHumboldt Prize 1992
Fulbright scholarship
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
Nuclear physics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
University of Lyon

Contributions

Ericson is known for her contributions to nuclear pion physics, which is a subfield of nuclear physics. She discovered the Lorentz-Lorenz-Ericson-Ericson effect of the pion-nuclear optical model within electroweak interactions,[3] alongside her future husband, Torleif Ericson, a nuclear physicist from Sweden.[4][5] She has also been one of the leading researchers on the interpretation of the EMC effect.[6][7]

Ericson continues her research to this day, although her husband has retired.[8]

Education and life

Magda received her PhD in experimental physics at the Sorbonne in 1958, working for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).[5][8] In 1959 she received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT. She has been a visiting CERN researcher since 1965.[9] Her cousin David Galula was a prominent military theorist.[10]

References
  1. "Galula-Ericson, Magda (1929- )". VIAF.
  2. "Marquis Biographies Online". search.marquiswhoswho.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
  3. Ericson, Magda; Ericson, Torleif (February 18, 1966). "Optical properties of low-energy pions in nuclei" (PDF). Annals of Physics. 36 (3): 323–362. Bibcode:1966AnPhy..36..323E. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(66)90302-2.
  4. Krige, J (1996). A History of CERN, III. 978-0444896551: Elsevier. p. 306. ISBN 978-0444896551.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. "Magda Galula Ericson". CWP at UCLA. April 30, 1997. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  6. Ericson, Magda (1986). The EMC Effect and the Swelling of Nucleons in Nuclei. Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei. pp. 382–392. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-71689-8_80. ISBN 978-3-642-71691-1.
  7. Ericson, Magda (1986). Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei, Pion Number and the EMC Effect. New Vistas in Nuclear Dynamics. NATO ASI Series. 139. pp. 163–189. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-5179-5_5. ISBN 978-1-4684-5181-8.
  8. "Faces and places: CERN lays on birthday treat for the Ericsons". CERN Courier. 50 (10): 41. December 2010.
  9. Seghal, Rashme. "Discovering the universe, one particle at a time". Rediff. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  10. Marlow, Ann (August 2010). David Galula: His Life and Intellectual Context (PDF). Strategic Studies Institute. p. 21. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
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