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Daniel Mattis

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Daniel Mattis · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; magnetism and exactly solvable many-body models

When

1932, Brussels, Belgium

Where

Belgium · United States

Biography

Daniel Mattis is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; magnetism and exactly solvable many-body models

How & why

Mattis is a theoretical physicist known for his work on magnetism and for exactly solvable many-body models, including the Lieb-Mattis theorem and the Mattis-Bardeen theory of superconductors. His textbooks on magnetism and statistical mechanics are widely used. As a Jewish child his family fled the Holocaust, escaping Belgium in 1940 with visas issued by the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes; he became a professor at the University of Utah.

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Physicist; magnetism and exactly solvable many-body models

1932

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics