Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld · Science & Medicine
Physicist; general relativity and the Born-Infeld theory
1898, Kraków, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) — 1968, Warsaw, Poland
Poland · United Kingdom · Canada
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Infeld was a theoretical physicist who collaborated with Albert Einstein on general relativity, co-authoring the influential popular book 'The Evolution of Physics' (1938) and contributing to the Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations of motion. He also worked with Max Born on the Born–Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Kraków, he later returned to Poland to help rebuild its physics community.
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Physicist; general relativity and the Born-Infeld theory
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