Valentine Telegdi was a Hungarian-American physicist who lived from 1922 to 2006, known for a 1957 experiment confirming parity non-conservation and for extensive research on muons that earned him the nickname Mister Muon, including co-developing the BMT equation for relativistic spin precession with Valentine Bargmann and Louis Michel. He held positions at the University of Chicago from 1951 to 1976, where he became its first Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor in 1972, as well as at ETH Zurich, CERN and Caltech. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1968 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2003, and received the Lilienfeld Prize in 1995. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1991, shared with Maurice Goldhaber.
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Valentine Louis "Val" Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint; 11 January 1922 - April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-American physicist.
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