Paul Ehrenfest | |
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 Ehrenfest in c. 1910 | |
| Born | 18 January 1880 |
| Died | 25 September 1933 (aged 53) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Citizenship | Austria (pre-1922) Netherlands (post-1922) |
| Alma mater | Vienna University of Technology University of Vienna University of Göttingen |
| Known for | Ehrenfest theorem Ehrenfest paradox Ehrenfest equations Ehrenfest model Coining the term 'spinor' Coining the term 'ultraviolet catastrophe' Ehrenfest classification Ehrenfest–Tolman effect Nonradiation condition Privileged character of 3+1 spacetime Timoshenko–Ehrenfest beam theory Ehrenfest time |
| Spouse | Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva |
| Children | Tatyana Ehrenfest Galinka Ehrenfest Paul Jr. Ehrenfest Vassily Ehrenfest |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Leiden |
| Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Boltzmann |
| Doctoral students | Johannes Martinus Burgers Hendrik Casimir Dirk Coster Samuel Goudsmit Hendrik Kramers Arend Joan Rutgers Jan Tinbergen George Uhlenbeck |
| Other notable students | Gregory Breit Paul Sophus Epstein Viktor Trkal Gerhard Heinrich Dieke Gunnar Nordström |
| Special relativity |
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Paul Ehrenfest (18 January 1880 – 25 September 1933) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who made major contributions to statistical mechanics and its relation to quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition[1] and the Ehrenfest theorem. He befriended Albert Einstein on a visit to Prague in 1912 and became a professor in Leiden, where he frequently hosted Einstein.[2] He died by murder-suicide in 1933, killing his disabled son, Wassik, and then himself.
- ^ Jaeger, Gregg (1 May 1998). "The Ehrenfest Classification of Phase Transitions: Introduction and Evolution". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 53 (1): 51–81. doi:10.1007/s004070050021. S2CID 121525126.
- ^ Isaacson, Walter (2007). Einstein : his life and universe. New York. ISBN 978-0-7432-6473-0. OCLC 76961150.
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