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Leopoldo Maximo Falicov
Leopoldo Maximo Falicov
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LOUIE LEOPOLDO ("LEO") MAXIMO Falicov died onJanuary 24, 1995, after a short illness involving cancer of the esophagus.
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The intense experimental research on Fermi surfaces of metals en cl semimetals in the 1960s en cl 1970s resultecl in ciata that couIcl be viewocl as parts of puzzles. Falicov's work on Fermi surface geometries allowed!
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While this may sound surprising given their recent immigrant Jewish background, one must keep in mincl that Argentina was at the turn of the twentieth century one of the woricl's strongest economies en cl an immigrant's paradise. Compulsory en cl free lay public education hacl been establishecl in the micI~ SOOs by D
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Early in 1955 they must have heard that a new graduate school of physics was about to open in San Carios cle Bariloche, a beautiful spot at the foot of the Patagonian Ancles, locatecl in splenclicl isolation 1,800 kilometers away from Buenos Aires, straight line, on the shore of Lake Nahue! Huapi.
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Nearly simultaneously Leo wrote a cloctoral dissertation on the Lennuier effect (1960) , an intriguing phenomenon observed in Paris in 1947 by the cloctoral student whose name it bears.
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After a brief start in his friencl's aircraft factory Richter approached Peron with claims of espionage en cl sabotage en cl the neecl to move his labs to an isolatecl place protectec! by the utmost secrecy.
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Richter hacl cIaimecl success." As in the case of the Utah coic! fusion 40 years later, once the initial announcement was macle public, clemancis for cletails en cl more visible results grew from clay to clay.
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Balseiro, a gifted physicist with limited research experience, hacl aIreacly proved, as chairman of the Huemul commission, to be an excellent administrator. He was able to recruit a competent en cl cleclicatecl faculty, inclucling Spanish mathematicians, German en cl Austrian physicists, Italians, and some of the best Argentinean scientists at hand.
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The Instituto Balseiro kincIly macle available to us copies of six of the long letters written regularly by Leo to Balseiro in the perioc! from October 1958 (from Cambridge)
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his ability to make goocl decisions macle him an icleal cancliciate for committee chairs and faculty administration. When he was chair of the Physics Department ~ ~ 98 I-83)
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They both attenclecl public schools in Berkeley, any kind of private schools would have meant for Leo en cl Marta betraying their Argentinean principles of free and lay public education. Both sons attended the University of California at Berkeley, Alexis graduating
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His sense of humor en cl wry stories macle him a favorite dinner companion. He is fancily remembered as a vibrant incliviclual en c!
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Effect of spin-orbit splitting on the Fermi surface of the hexagonal close packed metals.
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Magnetic breakdown in metals. In Low Temperature Physics, vol.
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