José W. F. Valle

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| birth_place = Brazil

| nationality = Spanish

| fields = Physics

| workplaces = Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC)

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| known_for = Contributions to theoretical astroparticle and high energy physics, especially neutrino physics

| awards =Spanish Iberdrola Science & Technology Prize for Theoretical Physics, 1999
Humboldt Prize, 2002
Medal of the Mexican Physical Society, 2014

Mexico Science and Technology Prize, 2018

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José W. F. Valle (born June 2, 1953) is a Spanish physicist.

Biography

Born in Brazil, he earned a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Syracuse University (New York, 1982). In January 1983 he joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK, as a Research Associate, where he got married with a Spanish geneticist. In 1986 he moved to Spain, joining as a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and subsequently IFIC (Instituto de Física Corpuscular)

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at the University of Valencia in 1987. He is a Full Professor at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC. He is known for his numerous contributions to theoretical astroparticle and high energy physics, especially neutrino physics.

Valle has contributed significantly to the modern theory of neutrino mass. In a groundbreaking work with Joseph Schechter {{cite journal |journal= Physical Review D |volume= 22 |issue= 9 |page= 2227 |doi= 10.1103/PhysRevD.22.2227|title=Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories |last= Schechter|first= J.|author2=J. W. F. Valle|date= 1980-06-30 |bibcode=1980PhRvD..22.2227S}} he has provided the first exhaustive discussion of the various mechanisms of neutrino mass generation (including the variants of the seesaw mechanism). The same authors also formulated the Schechter-Valle theorem {{cite journal |journal= Physical Review D |volume= 25 |issue= 11 |page= 2951 |doi= 10.1103/PhysRevD.25.2951|title= Neutrinoless double-beta decay in SU(2) x U(1) theories|last= Schechter|first= J.|author2=J. W. F. Valle|date= 1981-12-14|bibcode= 1982PhRvD..25.2951S|hdl= 10550/47205|hdl-access= free}}

demonstrating that an observation of neutrinoless double beta decay will necessarily imply neutrinos to be Majorana fermions and vice versa. He also contributed to the correct interpretation of

the oscillations of solar and atmospheric neutrinos{{cite journal|journal=New Journal of Physics|volume=6|issue=1|year=2004|page=122|doi=10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/122 |title= Status of global fits to neutrino oscillations|last= Maltoni |first= M.|display-authors=etal|arxiv = hep-ph/0405172 |bibcode = 2004NJPh....6..122M |s2cid=18393600}} which led to the physics Nobel Prize 2015 awarded to

Arthur B. McDonald and Takaaki Kajita. The discovery of neutrino masses and oscillations can be considered as the only firm indication of the incompleteness of the Standard Model of particle physics with important consequences also for astrophysics and cosmology.

Honors

[http://ific.uv.es/~valle//profvis99.htm Spanish Iberdrola Science & Technology Prize for Theoretical Physics] in 1999
Humboldt Prize 2002
Medal of the Mexican Physical Society, 2014.{{cite web|title=Universitat de Valencia News |url= http://www.uv.es/uvweb/college/es/news-release/jose-furtado-valle-investigador-de-l-ific-rep-la-medalla-de-la-societat-mexicana-de-fisica-1285846070123/Noticia.html?id=1285925573607}}
Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología 2018

Press

[http://ific.uv.es/~valle/nota-elpais-06-i+d.pdf An Interview to Spanish newspaper [El Pais], October 2006.
An article on "Neutrino detection" in Spanish newspaper Publico, May 2008, [http://ific.uv.es/~valle/El_publico_Mayo_2008.pdf download here].

Publications

Authored a particle physics textbook [http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527411976,descCd-buy.html Neutrinos in High Energy and Astroparticle Physics] which has been reviewed by the [http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/60590 CERN Courier]

Here is his [https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.W.F.Valle.1 publication profile] from the INSPIRE-HEP High Energy Physics database.

References

External links

[https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.W.F.Valle.1/ Citation summary profile from Inspire Energy Physics database]
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[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/play/authors/2004/top_5_rank.shtml Particle theorists citation ranking from Spires HEP database (2004)].
[https://www.astroparticles.es/ AHEP Group official site]
[http://ific.uv.es/ IFIC-Institut de Física Corpuscular official site]
[https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=8209&recCount=25&recPointer=0&bibId=18718746][https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=8229&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=12545986][https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=8336&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=677587][https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=8336&recCount=25&recPointer=2&bibId=106574][https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=8652&recCount=100&recPointer=13&bibId=17707867] Items by or about José Valle in the Library of Congress catalogue
[https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=showFullRecord¤tResultId=%22jose%22+and+%22w%22+and+%22f%22+and+%22valle%22%26any¤tPosition=3][https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=showFullRecord¤tResultId=%22jose%22+and+%22w%22+and+%22f%22+and+%22valle%22%26any¤tPosition=1] Items by or about José Valle in the German National Library catalogue
Cited in the popular science book [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674725010 The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time], by Heinrich Päs, Harvard University Press
[http://webific.ific.uv.es/web/content/el-investigador-del-ific-jos%C3%A9-wagner-furtado-valle-recibe-el-premio-m%C3%A9xico-de-ciencia-y/ Receiving Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología 2018, on December 9, 2019, Mexico, DF.]