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Paul Ehrenfest

Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)

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Lived 1880–1933, aged 53Austria
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    1880–1933
    Aged 53
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Updated 2026-06-20

Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian theoretical physicist who made major contributions to statistical mechanics and its relation to quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem. He befriended Albert Einstein on a visit to Prague in 1912 and became a professor in Leiden, where he frequently hosted Einstein. Suffering from depression, in 1933 Ehrenfest killed his disabled son, Wassik, and then himself.

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