Paul Ehrenfest
Paul Ehrenfest · Science & Medicine
Physicist; statistical mechanics and the Ehrenfest theorem in quantum mechanics
1880, Vienna, Austria — 1933, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Austria · Russia (St Petersburg) · Netherlands (Leiden)
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Paul Ehrenfest was a theoretical physicist who made lasting contributions to statistical mechanics and the foundations of quantum theory, including the Ehrenfest theorem linking quantum averages to classical mechanics and the classification of phase transitions. Successor to Lorentz at Leiden, he was a legendary teacher and a close friend of Einstein and Bohr. He was born in Vienna to a Jewish family from Moravia.
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Physicist; statistical mechanics and the Ehrenfest theorem in quantum mechanics
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