Arkady Migdal
Arkady Beynusovich (Benediktovich) Migdal (Russian: Арка́дий Бе́йнусович (Бенеди́ктович) Мигда́л; Lida, Russian Empire, 11 March 1911 – Princeton, United States, 9 February 1991) was a Soviet physicist and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He developed the formula that accounts for the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect, a reduction of the bremsstrahlung and pair production cross sections at high energies or high matter densities.[1]
His son, Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal, is also a renowned physicist.
Books
- Arkadiĭ Beĭnusovich Migdal & Vladimir Pavlovich Kraĭnov (1968). Approximation methods of quantum mechanics. translation from Russian by Irene Verona Schensted. NEO Press.
- Migdal, A.B. (1977). Qualitative methods in quantum theory. ISBN 0-8053-7064-1.
References
- ↑ Gribov, Vladimir; Larkin, Anatoly; Okun, Lev; Polyakov, Alexander; Saperstein, Eduard (December 1991). "Obituary: Arkady Migdal". Physics Today. 44 (12): 92–93. Bibcode:1991PhT....44l..92G. doi:10.1063/1.2810373.
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