• 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.
  • Born in Vienna, the son of grocers, young Paul did not always do well in school. ... In 1933, Ehrenfest committed suicide.
  • Johanna Ehrenfest worked long hours in their shop and Paul was looked after at home by a nursemaid.
  • Paul Ehrenfest was a student in Ludwig Boltzmann's classes on kinetic theory of gases at the University of Vienna.
  • In 1911 Paul and Tatiana Ehrenfest published an influential critical review of the field of statistical mechanics and its conceptual foundations...
  • Paul Ehrenfest (right) with Pieter Zeeman (left) and Albert Einstein, in the lab at the Leiden Institute, photograph, ca 1920 (Wikimedia commons).
  • Because he was a great teacher, I trust that Paul Ehrenfest would not mind us trying to extract insights from his story.
  • Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian mathematician who made important contributions to statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics.
  • If we were to judge Paul Ehrenfest by the company that he kept, he was surely a great scientist.