Léon Rosenfeld
Léon Rosenfeld (born August 14, 1904 in Charleroi ; † March 23, 1974 ) was a Belgian theoretical physicist.
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Rosenfeld was born in Charleroi, Belgium, in 1904 as the son of an engineer. He received his doctorate from the University of Liège in 1926 and then from 1926 to Paris (with Louis de Broglie , Léon Brillouin , Paul Langevin ), from 1927 to 1929 in Göttingen with Max Born and in 1929/30 in Zurich with Wolfgang Pauli . From 1930 to 1941 he was professor of theoretical physics in Liège, but often stayed in Copenhagen with Niels Bohr . In 1940 he succeeded George Uhlenbeck in Utrecht, but was unable to take up the professorship because of the German occupation and their anti-Semitic policies. After the war he was again a professor in Utrecht and from 1947 to 1958 in Manchester . After that he was Nordita -Institute in Copenhagen, founded in 1957 on the initiative of Bohr, until his death in 1974 . As in 1930, Rosenfeld worked closely with Niels Bohr. From 1955 to 1974 he was the main editor of the journal " Nuclear Physics ".
Rosenfeld occupied a. a. with the uncertainty relations and the measuring process in quantum electrodynamics (with Bohr 1933), with statistical mechanics, nuclear physics and especially nuclear reactions, the history of science and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
In 1949 he received the Francqui Prize .
Fonts
- Nuclear Forces , Interscience 1948
- with Niels Bohr: On the question of the measurability of electromagnetic fields , Kgl. Danske Videnskab. Selskab Mat.-Fys. Medd. Vol. 12, 1933, 8 ( PDF )
- with Niels Bohr: Field and Charge Measurements in Quantum Electrodynamics , Physical Review, Vol. 78, 1950, p. 794
- Nuclear reminiscences , in F. Reines (Ed.) Cosmology, Fusion and other Matters 1972 (George Gamow Volume)
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| SURNAME | Rosenfeld, Léon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleroi |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1974 |