George Eugene Uhlenbeck was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
19 Facts About George Uhlenbeck
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George Uhlenbeck was the son of Eugenius and Anne Beeger Uhlenbeck.
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George Uhlenbeck attended the Hogere Burgerschool in The Hague, from which he graduated in 1918.
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George Uhlenbeck subsequently entered Delft University of Technology as a student in chemical engineering.
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From 1922 to 1925 George Uhlenbeck was the tutor of the younger son of the Dutch ambassador in Rome.
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In 1923, George Uhlenbeck received his master's degree from Leiden.
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George Uhlenbeck returned to Leiden in 1925 to become Ehrenfest's assistant.
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George Uhlenbeck married Else Ophorst in Arnhem, Netherlands in August 1927.
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George Uhlenbeck received a doctorate from the Leiden University in the same year.
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In 1927, George Uhlenbeck took a position as an instructor in physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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George Uhlenbeck stayed there until 1935, when he succeeded H A Kramers as a professor of theoretical physics in Utrecht.
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In 1938, George 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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George Uhlenbeck remained in Ann Arbor until 1960, when he joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City as a professor and member of the institute.
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George Uhlenbeck retired in 1971, but remained scientifically active until the early 1980s.
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George Uhlenbeck died on October 31,1988, in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of 87.
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George Uhlenbeck was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1955, the American Philosophical Society in 1957, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1964.
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George Uhlenbeck was a friend of many of the great physicists and mathematicians of his era, including Enrico Fermi and Oskar Klein.
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George Uhlenbeck wisely observed that what is often of lasting value is not the first original contribution to a problem, but rather the final clearly and critically written survey.
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George Uhlenbeck's papers are all relatively short and stand out by their conciseness, precision, and clarity, finely honed to a deeper understanding of a basic problem in statistical physics.