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Leonid Frankfurt

b. 1938

Russian-Israeli physicist

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About Leonid Frankfurt

Born 1938. Leonid Frankfurt is a physicist.

Leonid Lev Frankfurt (; born 1941) is a Russian-Israeli physicist from Tel Aviv University. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Nuclear Physics in 2007, for seminal contributions to high energy and high momentum transfer probes of hadrons and nuclei including: inventing the additive quark model, deriving the light front approach to nuclei, showing how to observe nucleon-nucleon corrections, and discovery of high-energy color transparency.

He graduated from Leningrad University.

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Important facts

Born
1938
Birth century
Occupation
Education
Saint Petersburg State University
Awards
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Also known as
Leonid Lev Frankfurt

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Russian-Israeli physicist

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Leonid Frankfurt was born in 1938.

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Leonid Frankfurt is a physicist.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Leonid Frankfurt

· Wikidata: Q29528646

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