Sigurd Zienau

Sigurd Zienau

Infobox Scientist
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birth_date = c. 1921
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death_date = October 18, 1976
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residence = United Kingdom
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fields = Physicist
workplaces = University College London
University of Liverpool
alma_mater = Birkbeck College
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academic_advisors = Walter Heitler
Wolfgang Pauli
Herbert Fröhlich
doctoral_students = Paul C. W. Davies
Hugh Osborn
Patricio Cordero
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known_for = Theory of the polaron
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influenced = Freya Mathews [ [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7_HqiWzFed8C&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=freya+matthews+sigurd+zienau&source=web&ots=IhVjGCVi2R&sig=vfyI0l-nwIpFK0FSx7Ng-wxjy0s&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Zienau's influence on Mathews] ]
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Sigurd Zienau (1921-1976) was a physicist notable for the theory of the polaron.

Education

His undergraduate studies were in mathematics at Birkbeck College. His further studies in physics were very much in the 'old school' European style at the time and he variously studied under Walter Heitler, Wolfgang Pauli, and Herbert Frolich.

Career

In 1954, he became an ICI Fellow and lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Then in 1965, he became a Reader in Physics at University College London until his early death at the age of 55. As well as his work on polarons he is remembered for his insightful revisions of Walter Heitler's book "Quantum Theory of Radiation" and Nevill Francis Mott & Harrie Massey's book "The Theory of Atomic Collisions."

See also

* Polaron
* Walter Heitler

References

* E. A. Power and F. F. Heymann, "Sigurd Zienau," (Obituary) "Nature", Vol. 266, pp. 201-202, 1977.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=103864 Zienau's math genealogy]
* [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F1928%2FNRI2%2FSCC2%2F352%2F3%2F14 Zienau letter to Needham]
* [http://www.phys.ucl.ac.uk/department/history/BFox3.html History of Physics at UCL with reference to Zienau]
* [http://www.phys.ucl.ac.uk/department/history/BFox4.html History of Physics at UCL with reference to Zienau, Osborn & Cordero]


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