Valentine Bargmann
Valentine Bargmann · Science & Medicine
Mathematical physicist; representation theory and the Bargmann space
1908, Berlin, Germany — 1989, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Germany · Switzerland · United States
Valentine Bargmann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematical physicist; representation theory and the Bargmann space
Born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Bargmann fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to the United States, where he became an assistant to Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study before a long career at Princeton. He made foundational contributions to representation theory and mathematical physics, including the Bargmann space of analytic functions used in quantum mechanics. He was Jewish.
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Mathematical physicist; representation theory and the Bargmann space
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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