Helga E. Rafelski

Helga Rafelski
Born
Helga Ernestine Betz

September 3, 1949
DiedNovember 5, 2000(2000-11-05) (aged 51)
Tucson, Arizona
NationalityGerman
Alma materCape Town University, University of Illinois at Chicago
SpouseJohann Rafelski
ChildrenMarc Rafelski, Susanne Rafelski
Scientific career
InstitutionsGoethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Thesis Muon regeneration in muon catalyzed dt-fusion  (1988)
Doctoral advisorRaoul D. Viollier

Helga Ernestine Rafelski, (née Betz) (3 September 1949 – 5 November 2000[1]) was a German particle physicist. She got her professional degree from Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main,[2] her master's degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1977 and her PhD from University of Cape Town in 1988 under the advisement of Raoul D. Viollier.[3][4] She studied muon-catalysed fusion and relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Returning from South Africa, Rafelski held a visiting position at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main where she worked with Berndt Müller.[5] In-between other appointments she was a scientific associate at CERN in the Data Handling Division.[6]

Her last position was as a computer science teacher at Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson.[7]

Helga Rafelski sadly died of cancer in November 2000 in Tucson, Arizona.

  1. ^ Rafelski, Johann (2020). "Discovery of Quark-Gluon Plasma: Strangeness Diaries". The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 229 (1): 1–140. arXiv:1911.00831. Bibcode:2020EPJST.229....1R. doi:10.1140/epjst/e2019-900263-x. ISSN 1951-6355. S2CID 207869782.
  2. ^ Rafelski, H.; Fink, B. (1974). "Particle Number Dependence of Collective Properties of Nuclei in the Rare Earth Region". Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 29 (8): 1131–1137. Bibcode:1974ZNatA..29.1131R. doi:10.1515/zna-1974-0804. ISSN 1865-7109. S2CID 3476447.
  3. ^ Rafelski, Helga E. (1988). Muon regeneration in muon catalyzed dt-fusion (PhD). Cape Town: University of Cape Town —UCT-TP-100-88. OCLC 890420063.
  4. ^ "Author profile for Helga E. Rafelski". Inspire HEP. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
  5. ^ Rafelski, H.E.; Müller, B. (1990). "PC-fortran programs for muon reactivation calculations in muon-cataluzed fusion". Computer Physics Communications. 59 (3): 521–526. Bibcode:1990CoPhC..59..521R. doi:10.1016/0010-4655(90)90093-G.
  6. ^ Hagedorn, Rolf; Reinfelds, Juris; Van Hove, Léon Charles Prudent; Vandoni, Carlo E.; Rafelski, Helga E. (1978). SIGMA, a new language for interactive array-oriented computing (CERN-78-12). CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs. CERN. Geneva. Geneva: CERN. doi:10.5170/CERN-1978-012.
  7. ^ "Lauren Elmegreen, Marc Rafelski (Published 2007)". The New York Times. 2007-08-05. Retrieved 2023-08-10.