Helga E. Rafelski

Helga Rafelski
Born	Helga Ernestine Betz September 3, 1949
Died	November 5, 2000(2000-11-05) (aged 51) Tucson, Arizona
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Cape Town University, University of Illinois at Chicago
Spouse	Johann Rafelski
Children	Marc Rafelski, Susanne Rafelski
Scientific career
Institutions	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Thesis	Muon regeneration in muon catalyzed dt-fusion  (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Raoul D. Viollier

Helga Ernestine Rafelski, (née Betz) (3 September 1949 – 5 November 2000^[1]) was a German particle physicist. She got her professional degree from Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main,^[2] her master's degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1977 and her PhD from University of Cape Town in 1988 under the advisement of Raoul D. Viollier.^[3][4] She studied muon-catalysed fusion and relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Returning from South Africa, Rafelski held a visiting position at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main where she worked with Berndt Müller.^[5] In-between other appointments she was a scientific associate at CERN in the Data Handling Division.^[6]

Her last position was as a computer science teacher at Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson.^[7]

Helga Rafelski sadly died of cancer in November 2000 in Tucson, Arizona.

References

1. Rafelski, Johann (2020). "Discovery of Quark-Gluon Plasma: Strangeness Diaries". The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 229 (1): 1–140. arXiv:1911.00831. Bibcode:2020EPJST.229....1R. doi:10.1140/epjst/e2019-900263-x. ISSN 1951-6355. S2CID 207869782.
2. Rafelski, H.; Fink, B. (1974). "Particle Number Dependence of Collective Properties of Nuclei in the Rare Earth Region". Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 29 (8): 1131–1137. Bibcode:1974ZNatA..29.1131R. doi:10.1515/zna-1974-0804. ISSN 1865-7109. S2CID 3476447.
3. Rafelski, Helga E. (1988). Muon regeneration in muon catalyzed dt-fusion (PhD). Cape Town: University of Cape Town —UCT-TP-100-88. OCLC 890420063.
4. "Author profile for Helga E. Rafelski". Inspire HEP. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
5. Rafelski, H.E.; Müller, B. (1990). "PC-fortran programs for muon reactivation calculations in muon-cataluzed fusion". Computer Physics Communications. 59 (3): 521–526. Bibcode:1990CoPhC..59..521R. doi:10.1016/0010-4655(90)90093-G.
6. Hagedorn, Rolf; Reinfelds, Juris; Van Hove, Léon Charles Prudent; Vandoni, Carlo E.; Rafelski, Helga E. (1978). SIGMA, a new language for interactive array-oriented computing (CERN-78-12). CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs. CERN. Geneva. Geneva: CERN. doi:10.5170/CERN-1978-012.
7. "Lauren Elmegreen, Marc Rafelski (Published 2007)". The New York Times. 2007-08-05. Retrieved 2023-08-10.