- George Eugene Uhlenbeck
Infobox Scientist
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name = G. E. Uhlenbeck
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caption = George Uhlenbeck,Hendrik Kramers , andSamuel Goudsmit circa 1928 inAnn Arbor .
birth_date =December 6 1900
birth_place =Batavia, Dutch East Indies
death_date =October 31 1988
death_place =Boulder, Colorado ,USA
residence = USANetherlands
citizenship = American
ethnicity = Dutch
fields =Physicist
workplaces =MIT University of Michigan Rockefeller Institute Princeton University
alma_mater =University of Leiden
doctoral_advisor =Paul Ehrenfest
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doctoral_students =Max Dresden Ronald Forrest Fox Boris Kahn Emil Konopinski Harold Hwa-Ling Szu
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known_for =Electron spin
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influenced =Walter S. Huxford
awards =Max Planck medal (1964)Lorentz Medal (1970)Wolf Prize in Physics (1979)
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footnotes = He was the father of the biophysicist Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck and the father-in-law of the mathematicianKaren Uhlenbeck .George Eugene Uhlenbeck (
December 6 1900 ,Batavia, Dutch East Indies –October 31 1988 ,Boulder, Colorado ) was a Dutch-American theoreticalphysicist . He introduced the concept of electron spin, which posits that electrons rotate on an axis, withSamuel Abraham Goudsmit , for which they were awarded theMax Planck medal in 1964. Uhlenbeck was also awarded theLorentz Medal in 1970 andWolf Prize in Physics in 1979.He was a student of
Austria n physicist andmathematician Paul Ehrenfest .External links
* K. van Berkel, [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn6/uhlenbeck "Uhlenbeck, George Eugène (1900-1988)"] , in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
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* [http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/spin/goudsmit.html S.A. Goudsmit. "The discovery of the electron spin"]
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=58901 Uhlenbeck's math genealogy]
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