Valentine Louis Telegdi ( Hungarian: ''Telegdi Bálint''; 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-born

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. He was the Enrico Fermi

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of Physics at the

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before he moved to

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. After retiring from ETH he divided his time between CERN and the

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. Telegdi chaired CERN's scientific policy committee from 1981 to 1983. According to

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he was one of The Martians.

Awards and honours

In 1991 he shared the

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with

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. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2003.

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Awards and honours

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