George Uhlenbeck
Dutch physicist (1900-1988) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 87
George Eugene Uhlenbeck was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist, known for his significant contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He co-developed the concept of electron spin, alongside Samuel Goudsmit, in 1925.
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The formalization of Langevin equation for the Brownian motion as a stochastic process, is known as the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, derived in 1930 from his work with Leonard Ornstein. I. I. Rabi said that Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit's omission for the Nobel Prize in Physics "will always be a mystery to me".
