Marcos Moshinsky | |
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Born | |
Died | 1 April 2009 | (aged 87)
Nationality | Mexican |
Education | National Autonomous University of Mexico (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
Known for | Transformation parenthesis for harmonic oscillator functions |
Awards | Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Investigation (1988) UNESCO Science Prize (1997) Wigner Medal (1998) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Elementary particles |
Institutions | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Doctoral advisor | Eugene Paul Wigner |
Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky (Russian: Маркос Мошинский Бородянский; Ukrainian: Маркос Мошинскі; 1921–2009) was a Mexican physicist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin whose work in the field of elementary particles won him the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1988 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 1997.