Symmetries in Physics Proceedings of the International Symposium Hel
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Alejandro Frank Kurt Bernardo Wolf Editors
Symmetries in Physics Proceedings of theInternational Symposium Held in Honor of Professor Marcos Moshinsky at Cocoyoc, Morelos, Mexico, June 3-7, 1991 With 51 Figures
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Editors Dr. Alejandro Frank Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Apdo. Postal 20-543, 01000 Mexico DF Dr. Kurt Bernardo Wolf Instituto de Investigaciones en Matematicas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Apdo. Postal 139-B 62191 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico DF
Technical Editor Arturo Sanchez y Gandara Ediciones Tecnico-Cientificas Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 20-364 01000 Mexico DF
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Preface Marcos Moshinsky was born on 20 April 1921, in Kiev, Ukraine, and emigrated to Mexico at the age of four. He began work at the Universidad N acional Aut6noma de Mexico on 1 January 1942, as a laboratory assistant working on the measurement of cosmic rays. He pursued his graduate studies at Princeton University, and wrote his thesis under the supervision of Professor Eugene Wigner. Since 1949, and in spite of many visits and temporary posts held abroad, Moshinsky has been based in Mexico. Through example and encouragement, Moshinsky may be credited to a large extent with the shaping of Mexican scientific research. He has directed 40 B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. theses, and published over 200 scientific articles and four books; he holds all the Mexican science prizes, and several international ones, being a member of 11 academies of learning. Talent and circumstance have placed Marcos Moshinsky at the origin of several of the enterprises of the Mexican and Latin American scientific communities: he was founding editor of the Revista Mexicana de F{sica from 1952 to 1967; the Escuela Latinoamericana de Fisica was initiated and five times organized by him in Mexi
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