Torleif Ericson

Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson, born November 2, 1930 in Lund, is a Swedish nuclear theoretical physicist.[1][2] He studied physics at Lund University, from where he obtained his PhD,[3] under the supervision of Ben Mottelson at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), in 1958.

Torleif Erik Oskar Ericson
Torleif Ericson
BornNovember 2, 1930 (1930-11-02) (age 91)
Lund, Sweden
Alma materLund University
Known forEricson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz correction
Ericson fluctuations
Spouse(s)Magda Ericson
AwardsProfessors namn (Title of Professor), Sweden, 1976

Foreign member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 1990
Honorary professor, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1990
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1993

Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, 1994
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
Particle physics
InstitutionsLund University
Nordita
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
UC Berkeley
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Uppsala University

Biography

Ericson held positions as a postdoctoral researcher and an instructor at MIT[4][5][6] and as a visiting scientist Berkeley[5][7] from 1959 to 1960. At Berkeley he wrote a paper[8] where he predicted what later became known as 'Ericson fluctuations' and today considered a prime example of quantum chaos.[7][9] This prediction stimulated in a large number of nuclear reaction studies, as reviewed a few years later with Mayer-Kuckuk.[10]

In 1960 he joined CERN’s Theory Division,[11] first as a fellow, and then as a staff member in 1962.[12] Ericson worked at the interface between high-energy and nuclear physics.

In 1963, Ericson, after an initiative by A. de-Shalit and V.F. Weisskopf, organised an international conference on high-energy physics and nuclear structure.[13] The meeting turned out to be of significant importance both for Ericson's own career and the development of this scientific area.[1][14] The conference series, later generally referred to as PANIC, was the start of the field intermediate physics and has developed into a triennial event. The series is sponsored by IUPAP and has been going on since then.[15]

Ericson, together with his wife Magda Ericson, were among the first to focus the interaction of pions with nuclei and to study a regime that was intermediate between the low energies of traditional nuclear physics and the new high energies of elementary particles.[16] This activity led to that CERN set up various scientific committees,[17] in which Ericson was deeply involved in several of them. His research nurtured the link between nuclear and particle physics and resulted in the extra intermediate pillar referred to as medium-energy physics.

In his role as chairman of the Nuclear Structure Committee, Ericson proposed in 1964, to build an on-line isotope separator, which later has become known as ISOLDE.[18][19] CERN eventually established its ultrarelativistic heavy-ion programme[20] that over the years has attracted a large number of experimental physicists to the laboratory.[21][22]

Ericson is also recognized for his elucidation of the pionic influence on the properties of the deuteron.[23]

The year 1969/70, taking advantage of a sabbatical year from CERN, Ericson spent at MIT. During his career, he has also been invited guest professor at several universities: Geneva, Lausanne, Louvain, Tokyo and Uppsala. In 1993 he became adjunct professor at Uppsala University within the framework of CERN's collaboration with its Member States.

Ericson was associated editor in the journal Nuclear Physics A, with responsibility for intermediate energy, from 1976 to 2000.[24][25] Since 1991 he is one of the general editors of the series Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology.[26][27]Ericson has also been editor for a large number of conference proceedings.

He officially retired in 1995,[28] while he is still an active emeritus researcher.[29]

Awards and honors

Private life

Ericson has been married to the French physicist Magda Ericson since 1957. Together they have two adult children. The Ericson reside in Geneva, Switzerland.

Bibliography

Books
  • 1991: The meson factories. Univ. California Press.[33]
  • 1988: Pions and nuclei. Clarendon Press.[34]

Articles

References
  1. Feshbach, Herman (1991). "Torleif Ericson on his sixtieth birthday". Nuclear Physics News. 1 (3): 6. doi:10.1080/10506899108260750. ISSN 1061-9127.
  2. Weisskopf, Victor F. (1990). "Foreword to the Festschrift for Torleif Ericson". Nuclear Physics A. 518 (1–2): ix. Bibcode:1990NuPhA.518D...9W. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(90)90529-U.
  3. Ericson, Torleif (1958). Some statistical properties of excited nuclei. Lund University.
  4. Ericson, Torleif (1960). "The statistical model and nuclear level densities". Advances in Physics. 9 (36): 425–511. Bibcode:1960AdPhy...9..425E. doi:10.1080/00018736000101239. ISSN 0001-8732.
  5. Ericson, Torleif (1960-11-01). "Fluctuations of Nuclear Cross Sections in the "Continuum" Region". Physical Review Letters. 5 (9): 430–431. Bibcode:1960PhRvL...5..430E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.5.430. ISSN 0031-9007.
  6. "This week's citation classic" (PDF). Current Contents (11). 16 March 1981. Retrieved 2021-10-29.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Krige, J. (1996). "Physics in the CERN Theory Division: CERN, the centre of Europe". History of CERN, III. Elsevier. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
  8. Ericson, Torleif (1960-11-01). "Fluctuations of Nuclear Cross Sections in the "Continuum" Region". Physical Review Letters. 5 (9): 430–431. Bibcode:1960PhRvL...5..430E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.5.430. ISSN 0031-9007.
  9. Casten, Richard F.; Jolie, Jan; Kneissl, Ulrich; Lieb, Klaus-peter (2001). "Generic and non-generic features of chaotic systems: billiards and nuclei". Nuclear structure physics: Celebrating the career of Peter Von Brentano. World Scientific. p. 197. ISBN 978-981-4490-82-5.
  10. Ericson, T; Mayer-Kuckuk, T (1966). "Fluctuations in Nuclear Reactions". Annual Review of Nuclear Science. 16 (1): 183–206. Bibcode:1966ARNPS..16..183E. doi:10.1146/annurev.ns.16.120166.001151. ISSN 0066-4243. PMID 5334731.
  11. Krige, J. (1996). "Physics in the CERN Theory Division: moving to Geneva". History of CERN, III. Elsevier. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
  12. "INSPIRE: Torleif Ericson's author profile". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2021-10-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. Ericson, Torleif Eric Oskar, ed. (1963). 1963 International Conference on High-energy Physics and Nuclear Structure: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 25 Feb - 1 Mar 1963. CERN Yellow Reports: Conference Proceedings. Geneva: CERN.
  14. Pascolini, Alessandro (1994). PAN XIII: Particles and Nuclei - Proceedings of the XIII International Conference. World Scientific. pp. xv. ISBN 978-981-4550-75-8.
  15. "Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2021". pos.sissa.it. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  16. Ericson, M; Ericson, T. E. O (1966-02-18). "Optical properties of low-energy pions in nuclei". Annals of Physics. 36 (3): 323–362. Bibcode:1966AnPhy..36..323E. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(66)90302-2. ISSN 0003-4916.
  17. Krige, J. (1996). "The early interest in nuclear physics at CERN: CERN's Nuclear Structure Committee (NSC) and other scientific committees". History of CERN, III. Elsevier. pp. 333–334. ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
  18. "ISOLDE | timeline.web.cern.ch". timeline.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
  19. Krige, J. (1996). "The SC: ISOLDE and Nuclear Structure: The ISOLDE collaboration is formed". History of CERN, III. Elsevier. pp. 353–358. ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
  20. "A 30-year adventure with heavy ions". CERN Courier. 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  21. Jacob, Maurice (1990). "Getting to know nuclear physics". Nuclear Physics A. 518 (1–2): xi–xv. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(90)90530-Y.
  22. Krige, J. (1996). "The SC: ISOLDE and nuclear structure: the early ISOLDE". History of CERN, III. Elsevier. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-08-053403-9.
  23. Ericson, T E O; Rosa-Clot, M (1985). "D-State Admixture and Tensor Forces in Light Nuclei". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 35 (1): 271–294. Bibcode:1985ARNPS..35..271E. doi:10.1146/annurev.ns.35.120185.001415. ISSN 0163-8998.
  24. "Editorial Board". Nuclear Physics A. 258 (1): iii. 1976. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(76)90520-0.
  25. "Editorial board". Nuclear Physics A. 663–664: IFC. 2000. doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(00)80002-0.
  26. "Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  27. Donoghue, John F.; Golowich, Eugene; Holstein, Barry R. (1992-07-23). Dynamics of the Standard Model (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511524370. ISBN 978-0-521-36288-7.
  28. CERN lays on birthday treat for the Ericsons. CERN Courier. December 2010. p. 41.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  29. "People | Department of Theoretical Physics". theory.cern. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  30. Richter, Achim; Weise, Wolfram (1990). "Preface [to the Festschrift for Torleif Ericson]". Nuclear Physics A. 518 (1–2): i–viii. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(90)90528-T.
  31. "Members – Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten". scientiarum.fi. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  32. "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: The members—Torleif Ericson". Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. Retrieved 28 October 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  33. Ericson, Torleif E. O.; Ericson, Torleif Erik Oskar; Hughes, Vernon W.; Nagle, Darragh E. (1991-01-01). The Meson Factories. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07549-8.
  34. Ericson, Torleif Erik Oskar; Weise, Wolfram (1988). Pions and Nuclei. International Series of Monographs on Physics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852008-5.
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