Leopold Infeld

Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld in 1960
Born20 August 1898 (1898-08-20)
Died15 January 1968 (1968-01-16) (aged 69)
CitizenshipAustrian (1898–1918)
Polish (1918–1968)
Canadian (1939–50)
Alma materJagiellonian University
Known forInfeld–Van der Waerden symbols
Born–Infeld theory
Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations
Infeld–Hull factorization method
ChildrenEryk Infeld [pl]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsCambridge University
Jagiellonian University
University of Lwów
Princeton University
University of Toronto
Doctoral studentsIwo Bialynicki-Birula
Alfred Schild
Andrzej Trautman
P. R. Wallace

Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1]

  1. ^ Bergmann, Peter G. (March 1968). "Obituary: Leopold Infeld, Authority on Field Theory and Relativity". Physics Today. 21 (3): 113. Bibcode:1968PhT....21c.113B. doi:10.1063/1.3034808.