Paul Ehrenfest | |
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![]() Ehrenfest in c. 1910 | |
Born | |
Died | 25 September 1933 Amsterdam, Netherlands | (aged 53)
Citizenship | Austria (pre-1922) Netherlands (post-1922) |
Alma mater | Vienna University of Technology University of Vienna University of Göttingen |
Known for | Ehrenfest theorem Ehrenfest paradox Ehrenfest equations Ehrenfest model Coining the term 'spinor' Coining the term 'ultraviolet catastrophe' Ehrenfest classification Ehrenfest–Tolman effect Nonradiation condition Privileged character of 3+1 spacetime Timoshenko–Ehrenfest beam theory Ehrenfest time |
Spouse | Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva |
Children | Tatyana Ehrenfest Galinka Ehrenfest Paul Jr. Ehrenfest Vassily Ehrenfest |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions | University of Leiden |
Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Boltzmann |
Doctoral students | Johannes Martinus Burgers Hendrik Casimir Dirk Coster Samuel Goudsmit Hendrik Kramers Arend Joan Rutgers Jan Tinbergen George Uhlenbeck |
Other notable students | Gregory Breit Paul Sophus Epstein Viktor Trkal Gerhard Heinrich Dieke Gunnar Nordström |
Special relativity |
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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 relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition[1] and the Ehrenfest theorem. He befriended Albert Einstein on a visit to Prague in 1912 and became a professor in Leiden, where he frequently hosted Einstein.[2] He died by murder-suicide in 1933; he killed his disabled son Wassik, and then himself.
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