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April 24, 1959 - Image 41

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1959-04-24

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Greetings an Passover

CHARLOTTE'S
HAIR SHOPPE

Prof. Racah -- Scientist Who
Became Famous Overnight

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Happy Passover

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DAVID CASEY I
Prof. GIULIO RACAH, Hebrew University's famed physi-
cist, is shown receiving the coveted Solomon Bublick Award
ELECTRIC
CO.
Special Discounts
from Dr. Benjamin Mazar; president of the University. Prof.
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17 Sears, Highland Park
Racah, who has won wide acclaim for his "Racah Coefficient"
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is in the forefront of the movement to harness nuclear energy
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for peaceful purposes.
* *
By JOAN COMAY
it
from Pisa because he was a * *
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Joel (Giulio) Racah, head of Jew. He was appointed the *
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Blackstone Manor
the department of theoretical firstprofessor of theoretical *
THE
physics at the Hebrew Univer- physics at the Hebrew Univer-
Barber Shop
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sity, was a professor at the sity on Mount Scopus at the
Specializing in Ladies
University of Pisa while still age of 30.
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in his twenties. He was born
While there he began his
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in Florence in 1909.
74 West Columbia
studies of atomic structure and
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"Mathematics is in my its determination by mathemat- t********************4c
blood," says this dark, burly ical means. In 1942 he evolved
man with the quick smile and the Racah Formula, which was
the twinkling eyes behind horn- an algebraic technique to
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Holiday Greetings
rimmed glasses. "My father shorten calculations on the
Happy Passover
was an engineer, my maternal movement of electrons in atoms
uncle was professor of mathe- in the same way as astrono-
SAMUEL BRODY
matics at the University of Tu- mers can determine the move-
rin for 40 years." Both his sons ment of stars by mathematical
& SONS
are physicists. formulae.
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Racah came to Palestine in
His work was interrupted by
1939, after he was dismissed the War of Independence in
which he served as deputy
commander of the Haganah
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Unit defending the University.
Happy Passover to Our Friends and Patrons
To Our Friends and Patrons
A little later he was smug-
gled from Mount Scopus into
the besieged city of Jerusa-
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possessed. He was then put
in charge of a group to find
ways of making ammunition 0.9,..sLuisail_w_cassAs jus_SULWAsis.
and bombs out of available
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material.
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While Prof. Racah was busy
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and cut off from the
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proved that the arrangement
of particles in nuclei was sim- O
ilar to that of electrons in
atoms. This meant that the
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Racah method based on the
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study of light rays emitted by
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that he had become famous
overnight. The "Racah Coeffi-

cient" had become a scientific
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word. It is now used to study
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any kind of nuclear structure.
Books of tables based on
this coefficient are published
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The Olympic ideal of sport
for sport's sake has defied dicta-
tors, out-lasted wars and risen
above political struggles. It will
continue to do so. Sports are
most effective weapons against
prejudice and intolerance.
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