Siegfried Wouthuysen
Siegfried Wouthuysen · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
1916, Amsterdam, Netherlands — 1996
Netherlands · United States
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Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen was a Dutch theoretical physicist who, with Leslie Foldy, devised the Foldy–Wouthuysen transformation (1950), a unitary transformation of the Dirac equation that cleanly separates positive- and negative-energy states and remains a standard tool in relativistic quantum mechanics. He is also known for the Wouthuysen–Field effect in astrophysics. A Jewish physicist, he went into hiding in the Netherlands in 1942 to escape Nazi persecution.
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Physicist; the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
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