15 Facts About Nathan Rosen

Nathan Rosen was an American and Israeli physicist noted for his study on the structure of the hydrogen molecule and his collaboration with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.

Nathan Rosen was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.

Nathan Rosen attended MIT during the Great Depression, where he received a bachelor's degree in electromechanical engineering and later a master's and a doctorate in physics.

Nathan Rosen developed an interest in wave functions, and later, gravitation, when he worked as a fellow at the University of Michigan and Princeton University.

In July 1935 Einstein and Rosen published an article developing a concept of folded space time in parallel layers connected by a bridge, using only General Relativity and Maxwell's equations.

Einstein helped Nathan Rosen to continue his career in physics with a letter to Molotov in the Soviet Union resulting in a temporary position during which in 1937 Einstein and Nathan Rosen published an article "On Gravitational Waves" in which they further developed the concept of folded space time caused by rotating cylinders.

Between 1940 and 1989 Nathan Rosen published a series of articles on his versions of bimetric gravity, an attempt to improve on General Relativity by removing singularities and replacing pseudo-tensors with tensors to eliminate nonlocality.

Later in his life, Nathan Rosen turned his attentions to teaching and the establishment of new universities.

Nathan Rosen was President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the 1970s and commuted between the two institutions from his home in Haifa.

Additionally, Nathan Rosen helped found the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Physical Society of Israel, and the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.

Nathan Rosen was very active in encouraging the founding of higher educational institutions in Israel.

Nathan Rosen died on December 18,1995, at his home in Haifa at the age of 86.

One of the most lasting discoveries Nathan Rosen brought to physics was his formulation of the structure of the hydrogen molecule, a molecule where neither of the electrons have a definite quantum number, but the pair of electrons has a pure state.

Nathan Rosen used what he called "entangled" wave functions to represent the molecule's structure.

Nathan Rosen developed a theoretical analysis of the neutron as a combination of proton and electron in a 1931 article in Physical Review.