Back جورج أولنبيك Arabic جورج اولنبيك ARZ جرج اولنبک AZB Джордж Юджын Уленбек Byelorussian জর্জ ইউজিন উহলেনব্লেক Bengali/Bangla George Uhlenbeck Catalan George Uhlenbeck Czech George Eugene Uhlenbeck German George Eugene Uhlenbeck Spanish George Uhlenbeck Basque
George Uhlenbeck | |
|---|---|
 G.E. Uhlenbeck | |
| Born | George Eugene Uhlenbeck December 6, 1900 |
| Died | October 31, 1988 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
| Known for | Electron spin Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process Uehling–Uhlenbeck equation |
| Children | Olke C. Uhlenbeck |
| Awards | Oersted Medal (1955) Max Planck medal (1964) Lorentz Medal (1970) National Medal of Science (1977) Wolf Prize in Physics (1979) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Columbia University MIT University of Michigan Rockefeller Institute Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Ehrenfest |
| Doctoral students | Max Dresden George W. Ford Emil Konopinski Edwin Albrecht Uehling Seth Putterman Wang Chengshu |
George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist,[1] known for his significant contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He is most famous for co-developing the concept of electron spin, alongside Samuel Goudsmit, in 1925. The formalization of Langevin equation for the Brownian motion as a stochastic process, is known as the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, derived in 1930 from his work with Leonard Ornstein.
- ^ Dresden, Max (December 1989). "George E. Uhlenbeck". Physics Today. 42 (12): 91–94. Bibcode:1989PhT....42l..91D. doi:10.1063/1.2811256. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05.