- Ernst Ising
Ernst Ising (born
May 10 ,1900 ,Cologne ,Germany –May 11 ,1998 , Peoria,Illinois ,USA ) was a Germanphysicist , who is best remembered for the development of theIsing model offerromagnetism . He was a professor of physics atBradley University until his retirement in 1976.Ising earned a Ph.D in
physics from theUniversity of Hamburg in 1924. His doctoral thesis studied a problem suggested by his teacher,Wilhelm Lenz . He investigated the special case of a linear chain ofmagnetic moment s, which are only able to take two positions, "up" and "down," and which are coupled by interactions between nearest neighbors, a model which came to be known as the famousIsing model .As a young German-Jewish scientist, Ising was barred from teaching when Hitler came to power. He worked menial jobs and, though he survived World War II and taught afterwards in the United States, never published again.cite web|url=http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN04-21-00/sorin_story.html|title=Three-dimensional proof for Ising model impossible, Sandia researcher claims to have shown|publisher=Lab News, Sandia National Laboratories|first=Neil|last=Singer|accessdate=2008-02-27]
Article from Bradley University about Professor Ising: [http://www.bradley.edu/las/phy/personnel/ising.html]
Special Issue, Brazilian Journal of Physics, No. 30, (4), 2000, featuring an introduction and letter from Ising's wife, Dr. Jane Ising, and and article about Ising's life and work by S. Kobe. .pdf files available from: [http://www.sbfisica.org.br/bjp/Vol30/Num4/]
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