Leopold Infeld | |
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Born | 20 August 1898 |
Died | 15 January 1968 | (aged 69)
Citizenship | Austrian (1898–1918) Polish (1918–1968) Canadian (1939–50) |
Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
Known for | Infeld–Van der Waerden symbols Born–Infeld theory Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations Infeld–Hull factorization method |
Children | Eryk Infeld |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Cambridge University Jagiellonian University University of Lwów Princeton University University of Toronto |
Doctoral students | Iwo 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]