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| Type | Science | ||
| Gender | female | ||
| Birth | 18 December 1929, Tunis, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia | ||
| Age: | 90 years | ||
| Star sign | Sagittarius | ||
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Magda Galula Ericson (born c. 1929) is a French-Tunisian physicist.
Contributions
Ericson is known for her contributions to nuclear pion physics, which is a subfield of nuclear physics. She discovered the Lorentz-Lorenz-Ericson-Ericson effect of the pion-nuclear optical model within electroweak interactions, alongside her future husband, Torleif Ericson, a nuclear physicist from Sweden. She has also been one of the leading researchers on the interpretation of the EMC effect.
Ericson continues her research to this day, although her husband has retired.
Education and life
Magda received her PhD in experimental physics at the Sorbonne in 1958, working for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 1959 she received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT. She has been a visiting CERN researcher since 1965. Her cousin David Galula was a prominent military theorist.