Leopold Infeld

Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld in 1960
Born	20 August 1898 (1898-08-20) Kraków, then Austria-Hungary, now Poland
Died	15 January 1968 (1968-01-16) (aged 69) Warsaw, Poland
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 [pl]
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]