Henry Primakoff

Henry Primakoff
Henry Primakoff
Генрі Примако́в
Born	February 12, 1914; Odesa, Russian Empire
Died	February 25, 1983 (aged 69); Philadelphia, United States
Alma mater	Columbia University (AB, AM); New York University (PhD)
Known for	Primakoff effect; Holstein–Primakoff transformation
Spouse	Mildred Cohn
Awards	National Academy of Sciences
	Scientific career
Institutions	Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1938-1940); Queens College, New York (1940-1942); Columbia University (1942-1945); New York University (1945-1946); Washington University in St. Louis (1946-1960); University of Pennsylvania (1960-1983)

Henry Primakoff (Ukrainian: Генрі Примако́в; February 12, 1914 – July 25, 1983) was a Ukrainian-American theoretical physicist who is famous for his discovery of the Primakoff effect.

Primakoff contributed to the understanding of weak interactions, double beta decay, spin waves in ferromagnetism, and the interaction between neutrinos and the atomic nucleus. Along with Theodore Holstein, Primakoff also developed the Holstein–Primakoff transformation which is designed to treat spin waves as bosonic excitations.

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