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Leonard Ornstein

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Leonard Ornstein · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; the Ornstein-Zernike theory of fluids and fluctuations

When

1880, Nijmegen, Netherlands — 1941, Utrecht, Netherlands

Where

Netherlands

Biography

Leonard Ornstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Ornstein-Zernike theory of fluids and fluctuations

How & why

Leonard Salomon Ornstein was a Dutch physicist at the University of Utrecht who co-developed the Ornstein–Zernike theory of correlations and fluctuations in fluids and the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process in stochastic dynamics. Dismissed from his post under the Nazi occupation, he died soon afterward in 1941. He was Jewish.

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Physicist; the Ornstein-Zernike theory of fluids and fluctuations

1880

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics