Leonard Schiff
Leonard Schiff · Science & Medicine
Physicist; author of a classic Quantum Mechanics textbook
1915, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States — 1971, Stanford, California, United States
United States
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Schiff was an American theoretical physicist best known for his textbook 'Quantum Mechanics' (1949), a standard graduate text for decades, and for proposing tests of general relativity later carried out by the Gravity Probe experiments. Born to a Jewish family in Massachusetts, he chaired the physics department at Stanford University. His work shaped both the teaching of quantum theory and experimental gravitation.
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Physicist; author of a classic Quantum Mechanics textbook
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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