Yuri Golfand

Yuri Abramovich Golfand (Russian: Ю́рий Абра́мович Го́льфанд; January 10, 1922, in Kharkiv February 17, 1994, in Jerusalem) was a Russian and Israeli physicist known, in particular, for his 1971 paper (joint with his student Evgeny Likhtman) where they proposed supersymmetry between bosonic and ferminoic particles by extending the Poincaré algebra with anticommuting spinor generators. The algebra they constructed is also called a Super-Poincaré algebra.

Yuri Golfand was also a Refusenik. He was fired from his work at the Physical institute in Moscow in 1973, two years after publishing his work on supersymmetry. After 18 years of waiting, he obtained a permission to leave Soviet Union and emigrated to Israel in 1990. He worked at the Technion and died in 1994.


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