Marcos Moshinsky

Marcos Moshinsky
Born(1921-04-20)April 20, 1921
Died1 April 2009(2009-04-01) (aged 87)
NationalityMexican
EducationNational Autonomous University of Mexico (BS)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known forTransformation parenthesis for harmonic oscillator functions
AwardsPrince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Investigation (1988)
UNESCO Science Prize (1997)
Wigner Medal (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsElementary particles
InstitutionsNational Autonomous University of Mexico
Doctoral advisorEugene 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.