George Eugene Uhlenbeck

Infobox Scientist
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name = G. E. Uhlenbeck

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caption = George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, and Samuel Goudsmit circa 1928 in Ann Arbor.
birth_date = December 6 1900
birth_place = Batavia, Dutch East Indies
death_date = October 31 1988
death_place = Boulder, Colorado, USA
residence = USA
Netherlands
citizenship = American
ethnicity = Dutch
fields = Physicist
workplaces = MIT
University of Michigan
Rockefeller Institute
Princeton University
alma_mater = University of Leiden
doctoral_advisor = Paul Ehrenfest
academic_advisors =
doctoral_students = Max Dresden
Ronald Forrest Fox
Boris Kahn
Emil Konopinski
Harold Hwa-Ling Szu
notable_students =
known_for = Electron spin
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influenced = Walter S. Huxford
awards = Max Planck medal (1964)
Lorentz Medal (1970)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1979)
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footnotes = He was the father of the biophysicist Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck and the father-in-law of the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck.

George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6 1900, Batavia, Dutch East Indies – October 31 1988, Boulder, Colorado) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. He introduced the concept of electron spin, which posits that electrons rotate on an axis, with Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, for which they were awarded the Max Planck medal in 1964. Uhlenbeck was also awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1970 and Wolf Prize in Physics in 1979.

He was a student of Austrian physicist and mathematician Paul Ehrenfest.

External links

* K. van Berkel, [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn6/uhlenbeck "Uhlenbeck, George Eugène (1900-1988)"] , in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
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* [http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/spin/goudsmit.html S.A. Goudsmit. "The discovery of the electron spin"]
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=58901 Uhlenbeck's math genealogy]