• Paul Ehrenfest (18 January 1880 – 25 September 1933) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who made major contributions to the topic of statistical mechanics and its...
  • The first time I heard of Paul Ehrenfest was in a graduate physics course, taught by my advisor Max Dresden at Stony Brook University.
  • Paul Ehrenfest was the youngest of the five sons of Sigmund and Johanna Jellinek Ehrenfest. His childhood was spent in a working-class district of Vienna...
  • 1 The author is preparing a PhD thesis on the Leiden years of Paul Ehrenfest, in which Ehrenfests mediation plays a key role.
  • Image credit: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, courtesy of the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Paul Ehrenfest always insisted on hon-esty in thought and action.
  • Paul Ehrenfest grew up in Vienna as the son of a Jewish family from Loštice in Moravia. His parents, Sigmund Ehrenfest and Johanna Jellinek, ran a grocery store.
  • Paul Ehrenfest was a student in Ludwig Boltzmann's classes on kinetic theory of gases at the University of Vienna.
  • Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian theoretical physicist who helped clarify the foundations of quantum theory and statistical mechanics.
  • İşte Paul Ehrenfest'in bazı önemli buluşları: Adiabatik teorem: Paul Ehrenfest, adiabatik süreçlerdeki termodinamik davranışı tanımlayan bir teorem geliştirdi.
  • If we were to judge Paul Ehrenfest by the company that he kept, he was surely a great scientist. Albert Einstein once called him “the best teacher in our...