Gregory Breit

Gregory Breit
Григорій Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер
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Born	Gregory Alfredovich Breit-Schneider (1899-07-14)July 14, 1899 Mykolaiv, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv, Ukraine)
Died	September 13, 1981(1981-09-13) (aged 82) Salem, Oregon, US
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Known for	Relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution Breit equation Breit frame Breit–Rabi formula Breit–Wheeler process Zitterbewegung
Awards	Franklin Medal (1964) National Medal of Science (1967) Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics (1969)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Leiden University University of Minnesota New York University University of Wisconsin Yale University
Doctoral advisor	Joseph S. Ames
Doctoral students	Hubert Mack Thaxton Charles Kittel

Gregory Breit (Ukrainian: Григорій Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, Russian: Григорий Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, romanized: Grigory Alfredovich Breit-Shneider; July 14, 1899 – September 13, 1981) was an American physicist born in Mykolaiv, Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv, Ukraine).^[1] He was a professor at New York University (1929–1934), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1934–1947), Yale University (1947–1968), and University at Buffalo (1968–1973).^[2] In 1921, he was Paul Ehrenfest's assistant in Leiden University.