Felix Hans Boehm (June 9, 1924, Basel – May 25, 2021, Altadena, California)[1][2][3] was a Swiss-American experimental physicist, known for his research on weak interactions, parity violation, and neutrino physics.
Felix Boehm completed his Matura in 1943 and was drafted into Swiss army, which allowed him to study physics part-time at the University of Geneva.
[8] Boehm worked as an assistant to Scherrer from 1951 to March 1952 and then went as a Boese Fellow to Columbia University, where he studied with C. S. Wu for a year and a half.
In 1956 Boehm and Aaldert Wapstra made the confirmation by measuring the circular polarization of gamma rays in beta decay.
[6] In 1969 and 1970 he and J. C. Vanderleeden found parity non-conservation in nuclear forces by measuring the circular polarization of gamma rays from unpolarized atomic nuclei.
[14] In 1995 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics with citation: "For his pivotal contributions to our understanding of the weak interaction and fundamental symmetries in the nucleus.