Moscow - the Soviet Union from a Jewish family), educated about particle physics by Richard Feynman and then transferred his attention to neuroscience. The research scientist who spent years in the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but as of 2004 began to work in the financial services industry.
He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1959, has suggested the existence of quark Svaij when he was a graduate student in physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1964 separately from the Mori Gillman. Has recognized such as Gillman that it is possible to explain the properties of particles like the proton and neutron and that treating them as triplets of particles other (and he called Ace-Ace-Gilman and he called the quark) [1]. As pointed out by astrophysicist John Gripen has earned well-deserved Nobel Prize Gillman 1969, for his contributions and discoveries concerning the overall classification of elementary particles and their interactions; has not been fully accepted the theory of quarks at the time, was not mentioned specifically. In the following years, began to take hold to that theory, a standard model of particle physics, despite Svaij contributions to theories of modern physics, but it has not been awarded the Nobel Prize [2].
He moved later to Svaij Neuroscience Research, and the conversion of sound into nerve impulses in the cochlea in the human ear. During that study in the ear, he discovered the continuous wavelet transform.