| Richard Dalitz AKA Richard Henry Dalitz Born: 28-Feb-1925
Birthplace: Dimboola, Victoria, Australia
Died: 13-Jan-2006
Location of death: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Unitarian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots Physicist Richard Dalitz studied neutral pion decay, quantum theory, strong interactions, and pursued quark nuggets (also called "strange matter"), a material predicted but not yet proven to exist. In 1951 he proposed that a newly discovered unstable particle called the neutral pi-meson could decay into one photon and an electron and an anti-electron (now called a "Dalitz pair"). In 1953 he theorized about what he called a "phase-space plot" (now called the Dalitz plot) explaining the decay of a heavy particle in cosmic rays. Mother: (teacher)
Wife: Valda Dalitz
University: BA Mathematics, University of Melbourne (1944)
University: BS Physics, University of Melbourne (1945)
University: PhD Physics, Cambridge University (1948)
Teacher: Physics, University of Bristol (1948-49)
Teacher: Physics, University of Birmingham (1949-53)
Teacher: Physics, Cornell University (1953-56)
Professor: Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago (1956-66)
Professor: Physics, Oxford University (1963-90)
Hughes Medal 1975
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society 1960
Naturalized UK Citizen
Austrian Ancestry
Author of books:
Strange Particles and Strong Interactions (1962)
Properties of the Weak Interactions (1964)
Nuclear Interactions of the Hyperons (1965)
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