Biography:Leonid Frankfurt

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Leonid Lev Frankfurt (Russian: Леонид Львович Франкфурт; born 1941) is a Russian-Israeli physicist from Tel Aviv University. He was awarded the status of Fellow[1] in the American Physical Society,[2] after they were nominated by their Division of Nuclear Physics in 2007,[3] for seminal contributions to high energy and high momentum transfer probes of hadrons and nuclei including: inventing the additive quark model, deriving the light front approach to nuclei, showing how to observe nucleon-nucleon corrections, and discovery of high-energy color transparency.

He graduated from Leningrad University.

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