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Bernard Lippmann

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Bernard Lippmann · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in scattering theory

When

1914, United States — 1988, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Bernard Lippmann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in scattering theory

How & why

Bernard Abram Lippmann was an American theoretical physicist who, with Julian Schwinger in 1950, formulated the Lippmann–Schwinger equation, a cornerstone of quantum scattering theory that reframes scattering problems as integral equations. The result remains standard in nuclear, atomic and particle physics. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in scattering theory

1914

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics