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George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
George Uhlenbeck was an Indonesian born American theoretical physicist who worked in quantum mechanics and introduced the idea of electron spin. View one larger picture. Biography. George Uhlenbeck's ancestors had come first from Germany but then later generations were Dutch and served in the Dutch colonies.
George Eugene Uhlenbeck (born Dec. 6, 1900, Batavia, Java [now Jakarta, Indon.]—died Oct. 31, 1988, Boulder, Colo., U.S.) was a Dutch American physicist who, with Samuel A. Goudsmit, proposed the concept of electron spin.
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George Uhlenbeck and the Discovery of Electron Spin How two young Dutchmen, one with only o master's degree, the other a graduate student, made a most important finding in theoretical atomic physics.
Nov 2, 2018 · Goudsmit and his friend George Uhlenbeck, both graduate students at Leiden University in the Netherlands, had an idea. They proposed that the splitting could be explained if the electron had an...
- Davide Castelvecchi
- 2018
george eugene uhlenbeck December 6, 1900–October 31, 1988 by george w. ford g eorge eugene uhlenbeCk was a distinguished theoretical physicist, perhaps most widely known for the discovery of electron spin, made together with samuel abraham goud-smit while they were both graduate students in holland. in a
George Uhlenbeck (1900-1988) National Medal of Science recipient in 1976 “for the major discovery, together with Samuel A. Goudsmit, of the electron spin as a source of a new quantum number.”.
