Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 5,730 times.
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Oskar Klein
Oskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist now best remembered for the Klein-Gordon equation of relativistic quantum mechanics, the Kaluza-Klein theory, a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism, and the Klein–Nishina cross section in quantum electrodynamics.
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science · Swedish physicist (1894–1977) · physicist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · also Oskar Klein, O.B. Klein, Klein
Born 15 September 1894 · Died 5 February 1977 · Q251524
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Published “Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit” in Nature — cited 5,700 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Sex differences in immune responses” in Nature Reviews Immunology — cited 5,752 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 5,103 times.
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,665 times.
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2006· 2 entries
Published “Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences — cited 5,227 times.
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Published “Human gut microbes associated with obesity” in Nature — cited 7,707 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Published “Prophylactic Implantation of a Defibrillator in Patients with Myocardial Infarction and Reduced Ejection Fraction” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 5,808 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Published “Constant pressure molecular dynamics algorithms” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 5,467 times.
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1992· 1 entry
Published “Nosé–Hoover chains: The canonical ensemble via continuous dynamics” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 5,647 times.
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1983· 1 entry
Published “Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 39,682 times.
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1977· 1 entry
Died 1977-02-05.
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1959· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1959).
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1938· 1 entry
Proposed a boson-exchange model for charge-charging weak interactions (radioactive decay), a few years after a similar proposal by Hideki Yukawa
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Björkén Prize (1937).
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1926· 1 entry
The Klein-Gordon equation, the simplest and prototypical example of relativistic wave equation
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1925· 2 entries
But not published until after Klein, Gordon and Fock's papers because Schrödinger was initially discouraged by the fact that it did not give the right fine structure for the hydrogen atom
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Spent some time with Paul Ehrenfest in Leiden, then became docent at Lund University in 1926 and in 1930 accepted the offer of the professorial chair in physics at the Stockholm University College, which had previously b
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1923· 1 entry
Received a professorship at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and moved there with his recently wedded wife, Gerda Koch from Denmark
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-09-15.
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