Leonard Ornstein

Not to be confused with Leo Ornstein.
Leonard Ornstein
Leonard Salomon Ornstein (1927)
Born15 November 1880
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Died20 May 1941 (1941-05-21) (aged 60)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Alma materUniversity of Leiden
Known forDiscontinuous electrophoresis
Ornstein-Zernike equation
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Utrecht
Doctoral advisorHendrik Lorentz
Doctoral students95 PhD students, for instance Marcel Minnaert
H. C. Hamaker
Hendrik Dorgelo
Arie Andries Kruithof[1]
Dutch artist collective De Strakke Hand: Leonard Ornstein mural, showing Ornstein as a cofounder of the Dutch Physical Society (Netherlands Physical Society) at his desk in 1921, and illustrating twice the random walk of a drunkard with a simplified formula for the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Oosterkade, Utrecht, The Netherlands, not far from Ornstein's laboratory. Translated text: Prof. Ornstein researches random motion 1930. Note that the artists used the historical 1927 photograph of Ornstein at his desk.

Leonard Salomon Ornstein (12 November 1880 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands – 20 May 1941 in Utrecht, the Netherlands)[2] was a Dutch physicist.

  1. ^ Arie Andries Kruithof, Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ^ This text is almost entirely based on the article by: de Lang, Herman (October 2006). "Geschiedenis: 'Vuile handen' in eigen boezem". Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde. 72 (10): 334. Retrieved 2007-03-30. [permanent dead link] (in Dutch).