Officials of the University of Leiden thought a series of long-ago visits by Albert Einstein had left them with nothing but nostalgia. For a period in the 1920s he would spend about a month each year ...

The Perils of Being Paul Ehrenfest | RealClearScience If we were to judge Paul Ehrenfest by the company that he kept, he was surely a great scientist. Albert Einstein once called him “the best teacher ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. A few weeks back, MIT Press published a piece about Paul Ehrenfest by ...

In April 1932, six of the world's leading quantum physicists -- Niels Bohr, Paul Dirac, Paul Ehrenfest, Max Delbrück, Werner Heisenberg and Lise Meitner -- gathered at Bohr's Institute for Theoretical ...

In this extract from Quantum, shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, Manjit Kumar delves into one of the greatest controversies in the history of physics Paul Ehrenfest was in ...

Tragic Fate of Physicist Paul Ehrenfest Paul Halpern, Starts with a Bang! February 11, 2015 Physics is not immune from tragedy. Even brilliant minds sometimes grapple with inner demons. The worst ...

Paul Ehrenfest was one of the most brilliant yet tragic figures in modern physics. A close friend and collaborator of Albert Einstein, he helped shape the foundations of quantum theory and statistical ...