Electron spin Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process Quantum Boltzmann equation
Children
Olke C. Uhlenbeck
Awards
Oersted Medal (1955) Max Planck medal (1964) Lorentz Medal (1970) National Medal of Science (1977) Wolf Prize in Physics (1979)
Scientific career
Fields
Physicist
Institutions
Columbia University MIT University of Michigan Rockefeller Institute Princeton University
Doctoral advisor
Paul Ehrenfest
Doctoral students
Max Dresden George W. Ford Emil Konopinski Edwin Albrecht Uehling Seth Putterman
George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.[1]
^Dresden, Max (December 1989). "George E. Uhlenbeck". Physics Today. 42 (12): 91–94. Bibcode:1989PhT....42l..91D. doi:10.1063/1.2811256. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05.
George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. GeorgeUhlenbeck was the son of Eugenius and...
and lecturer at the University of Leiden GeorgeUhlenbeck (1900–1988), Dutch-American physicist Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942), American mathematician This...
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor...
His parents were Joseph and Sophia (née Sniegowska). He was, with GeorgeUhlenbeck as thesis advisor, a 1934 Ph.D graduate of the University of Michigan...
of Arts and Sciences. His brother was GeorgeUhlenbeck, the theoretical physicist, and the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck was a cousin of his father. Taalwetenschap...
his students were Johannes Burgers, Hendrik Kramers, Dirk Coster, GeorgeUhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit, who became famous for jointly proposing the concept...
work and it was never published. Ten months later, Dutch physicists GeorgeUhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit at Leiden University published their theory of...
a new two-valued quantum number, identified by Samuel Goudsmit and GeorgeUhlenbeck as electron spin. In his Nobel lecture, Pauli clarified the importance...
Ramsey, Hans Bethe, and Carl Wieman; as well as Arnold Sommerfeld, GeorgeUhlenbeck, Jerrold Zacharias, Philip Morrison, Melba Phillips, Victor Weisskopf...
(1955) E. Wigner (1956) Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) GeorgeUhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston...
radiation (which resulted in the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize, shared by George Smoot and John Mather). Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search...
as honourable a funeral as possible". The introduction of spin by GeorgeUhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit in November 1925 was a milestone. The next month...
possible values, was provided by the Dutch physicists Samuel Goudsmit and GeorgeUhlenbeck. In 1925, they suggested that an electron, in addition to the angular...
George E. Pake (April 1, 1924 – March 4, 2004) was a physicist and research executive primarily known for helping found Xerox PARC. Pake was raised in...
(1955) E. Wigner (1956) Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) GeorgeUhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston...
naturalized US citizen in 1943. From 1943 to 1945, he also worked with GeorgeUhlenbeck at the MIT Radiation Laboratory. During the 1951–1952 academic year...
Lehmann 1966 Gerhart Lüders 1965 not awarded 1964 Samuel Goudsmit and GeorgeUhlenbeck 1963 Rudolf Peierls 1962 Ralph Kronig 1961 Eugene Wigner 1960 Lev Landau...
Theoretical Physics began in Washington, D.C. under the joint auspices of George Washington University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. There...
guest lectures by GeorgeUhlenbeck, professor of theoretical physics at University of Utrecht. Pais was fascinated by Uhlenbeck's discussion of Enrico...
freedom. The idea of spin originated with Ralph Kronig. A year later, GeorgeUhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit identified Pauli's new degree of freedom as electron...
(1955) E. Wigner (1956) Henry DeWolf Smyth (1957) Jesse Beams (1958) GeorgeUhlenbeck (1959) Victor Weisskopf (1960) Frederick Seitz (1961) William V. Houston...
to arise from spin of the electron in 1925, by Samuel Goudsmit and GeorgeUhlenbeck, under the advice of Paul Ehrenfest. In 1924 Louis de Broglie proposed...
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