Paul Sophus Epstein
Physicist, Author
1883 – 1966
Who was Paul Sophus Epstein?
Paul Sophus Epstein was a Russian-American mathematical physicist. He was known for his contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, part of a group that included Lorentz, Einstein, Minkowski, Thomson, Rutherford, Sommerfeld, Röntgen, von Laue, Bohr, de Broglie, Ehrenfest and Schwarzschild.
Paul Epstein's parents, Siegmund Simon Epstein and Sarah Sophia Epstein were of a middle class Jewish family. He said that his mother recognized his potential at four years old and predicted that he would be a mathematician. He went to the Hochschule in Minsk, and from 1901-1905 studied mathematics and physics at the Imperial University of Moscow under Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev. In 1909 he graduated, and became a Privatdozent at the University of Moscow. In 1910 he went to Munich, Germany, to do research under Arnold Sommerfeld, who was his advisor, and Epstein was granted a Ph.D. on a problem in the theory of diffraction of electromagnetic waves. from the Technische Universität München, in 1914. At the outbreak of World War I he was in Munich, and considered an "enemy alien".
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1883
Warsaw - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Died
- Feb 8, 1966
Pasadena
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on July 23, 2013
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