Biography
Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky, Ukrainian-born Jewish Mexican physicist (Kiev 20 April 1921 – Ciudad de Mexico 01 April 2009)
Authored over 300 papers and 5 books (about 5,000 citations)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Discovered the diffraction in time (1952)
Introduced the concept of transformation parenthesis or brackets for functions of harmonic oscillation (1959)
With T.A. Brody prepared the tables of transformation brackets
With V. Bargmann introduced the systematic use of harmonic oscillators to solve problems in physics (1960-1)
With P. Kramer introduced states of permutation symmetry (1966-8)
Invented Dirac oscillator
Introduced a matrix type of boundary value problem
With J. Adem. Self-adjointness of a certain type of vectorial boundary value problems (1950)
HONORS
Houssay Prize, OAS (1990)
UNESCO Prize for Scientific Research (1997)
Eugene Wigner Medal (1998)
Weizmann Award, Weizmann Institute (2003)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (2000)
EPONYMY
Moshinsky parenthesis or brackets
Gelfand-Moshinsky bases
Dirac-Moshinsky oscillator
Bargmann-Moshinsky operator
Bargmann-Moshinsky space
Talmi-Moshinsky transformation
Talmi-Moshinsky rule
Quesne-Moshinsky transforms
Nagel-Moshinsky operators
Moshinsky-Smirnov coefficients
