Paul Epstein
Paul Epstein · Science & Medicine
Physicist; theory of the Stark effect in atomic spectra
1883, Warsaw, Poland (Russian Empire) — 1966, Pasadena, California, USA
Germany · United States
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Paul Sophus Epstein was a physicist who, independently of Karl Schwarzschild, gave the quantum theory of the Stark effect — the splitting of atomic spectral lines by an electric field — a landmark early success of quantum theory. Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, he worked in Germany before emigrating and becoming a longtime professor at Caltech. His theoretical work spanned atomic physics, relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Physicist; theory of the Stark effect in atomic spectra
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