Boris Abbott Jacobsohn (July 30, 1918, New York City – December 26, 1966) was an American physicist, known for his contributions to the study of muonic atoms.
[1] In late 1945, Edward Teller invited Maria Goeppert-Mayer, along with her two students Boris Jacobsohn and Harris Mayer, to Los Alamos to work on the development of the thermonuclear bomb.
For this work, Jacobsohn received, in 1947 after declassification of the research,[3] his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with thesis under the supervision of Edward Teller.
He was also known for his theoretical studies of tests for time reversal invariance in strong and electromagnetic interactions.
After his death, a fund was established to annually bring a distinguished physicist, elected by vote of the graduate students in the physics department, to the University of Washington as Boris A. Jacobsohn Memorial Lecturer.