Died 1988-10-31.
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George Uhlenbeck
George Eugene Uhlenbeck was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist, known for his significant contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He co-developed 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…
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science · American physicist (1900–1988) · physicist · university teacher · also George Uhlenbeck, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, G. E. Uhlenbeck, G.E. Uhlenbeck, George Eugène Uhlenbeck, Uhlenbeck
Born 6 December 1900 · Died 31 October 1988 · Q315439
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Along with Goudsmit, and the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1979
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1976· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1976).
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1971· 1 entry
But remained scientifically active until the early 1980s
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1970· 1 entry
Won Lorentz Medal (1970).
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1965· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1965).
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1959· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1959–1959).
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1956· 1 entry
Won Oersted Medal (1956).
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1955· 1 entry
The American Philosophical Society in 1957, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1964
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1953· 1 entry
The Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1955, the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society in 1964, the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1970, the
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1951· 1 entry
Became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1950).
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1945· 1 entry
Returned to Ann Arbor, where he was named the Henry Smith Carhart Professor of Physics in 1954
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1938· 1 entry
Uhlenbeck spent half a year as visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City, and then he returned to Ann Arbor as a professor of theoretical physics during the next year
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1933· 1 entry
Uhlenbeck and Edwin Uehling extended classical kinetic theory to gases obeying Bose–Einstein and Fermi–Dirac statistics
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1931· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1931).
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1927· 2 entries
Uhlenbeck took a position as an instructor in physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Studied at Leiden University (1919–1927).
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1923· 1 entry
Uhlenbeck received his master's degree from Leiden (Dutch: Doctoraalexamen)
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1919· 1 entry
Studied at Delft University of Technology (1918–1919).
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-12-06.
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