Arkady Migdal

Arkady Beynusovich (Benediktovich) Migdal (Russian: Арка́дий Бе́йнусович (Бенеди́ктович) Мигда́л; Lida, Russian Empire, 11 March 1911 - Princeton, USA, 9 February 1991) was a Soviet physicist and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He developed the formula that accounts for the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect, a reduction of the bremsstrahlung and pair production cross sections at high energies or high matter densities.[1]

His son, Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal, is also a renowned physicist.

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  1. Gribov, Vladimir; Larkin, Anatoly; Okun, Lev; Polyakov, Alexander; Saperstein, Eduard (December 1991). "Obituary: Arkady Migdal". Physics Today 44 (12): 92–93. Bibcode:1991PhT....44l..92G. doi:10.1063/1.2810373.

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