Marcos Moshinsky

Born| (1921-04-20)April 20, 1921

Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR

Died| 1 April 2009(2009-04-01) (aged 87)

Mexico City, Mexico

Nationality| Mexican
Alma mater| National Autonomous University of Mexico, Princeton University.
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 Ukraine -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.

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Early life

He was born in 1921 into a Jewish family in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR. At the age of three, he emigrated as a refugee to Mexico, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a doctorate in the same discipline at Princeton University under Nobel Laureate Eugene Paul Wigner.

## Career

In the 1950s he researched nuclear reactions and the structure of the atomic nucleus, introducing the concept of the transformation bracket for eigenstates of the quantum harmonic oscillator, which, together with the tables elaborated in collaboration with Thomas A. Brody, simplified calculations in the nuclear shell model and became an indispensable reference for the study of nuclear structure. In 1952, his work on the transient dynamics of matter waves led to the discovery of diffraction in time.

After completing postdoctoral studies at the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris, France , he returned to Mexico City to serve as a professor at the UNAM. In 1967 he was chosen president of the Mexican Society of Physics and in 1972 he was admitted to the National College. He was the editor of several international scientific reviews, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and authored four books and more than 200 technical papers. He received the Mexican National Prize for Science (1968), the Luis Elizondo Prize (1971), the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation (1988) and the UNESCO Science Prize (1997).

In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his many fundamental contributions to the description of many-body quantum systems through the use of group-theoretical techniques" [1]

While practicing physics, he wrote a weekly column in the newspaper Excélsior on Mexican politics.

## References

1. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1990&unit_id=&institution=. Retrieved 7 October 2020.

This article began as a translation of the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia.

* M. Moshinsky and Y. F. Smirnov, The harmonic oscillator in modern physics, Informa HealthCare, Amsterdam 1996.
* Moshinsky, Marcos (1952-11-01). "Diffraction in Time". Physical Review (American Physical Society (APS)) 88 (3): 625–631. doi:10.1103/physrev.88.625. ISSN 0031-899X. Bibcode: 1952PhRv...88..625M.

## External links

* Profile at the Prince of Asturias Foundation
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Profile at the National College of Mexico.

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Laureates of the Prince or Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

1980s|

* 1981: Alberto Sols
* 1982: Manuel Ballester
* 1983: Luis Antonio Santaló Sors
* 1984: Antonio Garcia-Bellido
* 1985: David Vázquez Martínez and Emilio Rosenblueth
* 1986: Antonio González González
* 1987: Jacinto Convit and Pablo Rudomín
* 1988: Manuel Cardona and Marcos Moshinsky
* 1989: Guido Münch

1990s|

* 1990: Santiago Grisolía and Salvador Moncada
* 1991: Francisco Bolívar Zapata
* 1992: Federico García Moliner
* 1993: Amable Liñán
* 1994: Manuel Patarroyo
* 1995: Manuel Losada Villasante and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica
* 1996: Valentin Fuster
* 1997: Atapuerca research team
* 1998: Emilio Méndez Pérez and Pedro Miguel Echenique Landiríbar
* 1999: Ricardo Miledi and Enrique Moreno González

2000s|

* 2000: Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier
* 2001: Craig Venter, John Sulston, Francis Collins, Hamilton Smith and Jean Weissenbach
* 2002: Lawrence Roberts, Robert E. Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee
* 2003: Jane Goodall
* 2004: Judah Folkman, Tony Hunter, Joan Massagué, Bert Vogelstein and Robert Weinberg
* 2005: Antonio Damasio
* 2006: Juan Ignacio Cirac
* 2007: Peter Lawrence and Ginés Morata
* 2008: Sumio Iijima, Shuji Nakamura, Robert Langer, George M. Whitesides and Tobin Marks
* 2009: Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson

2010s|

* 2010: David Julius, Baruch Minke and Linda Watkins
* 2011: Joseph Altman, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla and Giacomo Rizzolatti
* 2012: Gregory Winter and Richard A. Lerner
* 2013: Peter Higgs, François Englert and European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN
* 2014: Avelino Corma Canós, Mark E. Davis and Galen D. Stucky

Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

2010s|

* 2015: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
* 2016: Hugh Herr
* 2017: Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne, Barry C. Barish and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
* 2018: Svante Pääbo
* 2019: Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz

2020s|

* 2020: Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, Terence Tao and Emmanuel Candès

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