Leonid Lev Frankfurt (russian: Леонид Львович Франкфурт; born 1938) is a Russian-Israeli physicist from
Tel Aviv University
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. He was awarded the status of
Fellow
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in the
American Physical Society
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, after they were nominated by their Division of
Nuclear Physics
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in 2007,
for ''seminal contributions to high energy and high momentum transfer probes of hadrons and nuclei including: inventing the additive quark model, deriving the light front approach to nuclei, showing how to observe nucleon-nucleon corrections, and discovery of high-energy color transparency.''
He graduated from
Leningrad University
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.
References
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American Physical Society
Israeli physicists
Russian physicists
Living people
1938 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
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