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Soviet physicist
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Male
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Birth:
11 March 1911(Lida)
Death:
9 February 1991(Princeton Township, New Jersey)
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Biography
Introduction
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.
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.