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René Turlay

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René Turlay
Known forNuclear physics
AwardsHolweck Medal
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics

René Turlay (1932–2002) was a French nuclear physicist.

Biography

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René Turlay was one of the four discoverers of charge-parity violation.

In 1957, he joined the CEA laboratory. His first work with the Saturne synchrotron concerned the study of pi meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions at 2.3 GeV. After his doctoral thesis, he went to Princeton as a post-doc.

From 1962 to 1964, René Turlay played a major role in all phases of the memorable experiment at Brookhaven's accelerator where the CP violation phenomenon in weak interactions was discovered. This work won the 1980 Nobel Prize.

From the 1970s and until after he retired, Turlay worked regurlary at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva on a number of different projects.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Peyaud, Bernard (January–February 2003). "René Turlay 1932-2002". CERN Courier. Retrieved 2019-07-15.