Gaja Alaga

Gaja Alaga, in some publications also Gajo Alaga, ( born July 3, 1924 in Lemeš ( Svetozar Miletic today in northern Vojvodina); † in Zagreb 1988) was a Yugoslav theoretical physicist. His family were Bunjewatzen from Bačka.

Biography

Alaga studied theoretical physics in Budapest and Zagreb with Ivan Supek. After his studies he worked on the philosophical- mathematical faculty of the University of Zagreb and at the Rudjer Bošković Institute in the field of theoretical physics. Then Alaga went abroad and worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich.

From 1968 he was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Together with the Danish Aage Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen cooperating with drilling Americans Ben Roy Mottelson 1955, he headed the selection rules for beta and gamma transitions in deformed nuclei from the so-called Alaga rules.

Until his death Alaga was editor of the scientific journal Fizika.

Literature of Gaja Alaga (selection)

• Teorijska fizika i structuralist materije, 1988 ( together with Ivan Supek and others)
• G. Alaga, couple, Sips (Editor): Problems of Vibrational Nuclei: Proceedings of the Topical Conference on Problems of Vibrational Nuclei. Zagreb, 1974, Elsevier, ISBN 0-720-40332-4
• G. Alaga, K. Alder, Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson: Intensity Rules of beta and gamma transitions to Nuclear Rotational States, Det Danske Kongelike Videnskabernes Selskab, Matematisk - fysiske Meddelser, Volume 29, No. 9, 1955, p 1. -22.
• G. Alaga: New type of selection rules in the beta decay of 'strongly deformed nuclei. In: Physical Review, Volume 100, 1955, pp. 432-433 ..
• G. Alaga: Selection rules for beta and gamma particle transitions in deformed nuclei 'strongly. In: Nuclear Physics 4/1957, pp. 625-631.
• G. Alaga: Beta- decay matrix elements in 'strongly deformed nuclei. In: Glasnik mat. fiz. i astr. 12/1957, pp. 245-256.

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