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George Uhlenbeck

1900 - 1988

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George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) 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. 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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Uhlenbeck is the 399th most popular physicist (down from 358th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Indonesian Physicist.

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Among physicists, George Uhlenbeck ranks 399 out of 851. Before him are Moritz von Jacobi, Walter A. Shewhart, Stefan Hell, Jean-Antoine Nollet, John Kerr, and Arpad Elo. After him are Takaaki Kajita, Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Samuel Goudsmit, and Yoshio Nishina.

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Among people born in 1900, George Uhlenbeck ranks 100. Before him are Wilhelm Rediess, George Antheil, Lorenzo Fernández, Valko Chervenkov, Eduardo De Filippo, and Franziska Donner. After him are Jean Duvieusart, Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mervyn LeRoy, Franz Neumann, Arturo Umberto Illia, and Ernst Neufert. Among people deceased in 1988, George Uhlenbeck ranks 65. Before him are Renato Salvatori, Raymond Dart, Bluma Zeigarnik, Sergey Gorshkov, Takeo Miki, and Lev Pontryagin. After him are Vladimír Menšík, Anna Mahler, Andrija Artuković, Trường Chinh, Giacinto Scelsi, and André Navarra.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, George Uhlenbeck ranks 22 out of 158. Before him are Enrique of Malacca (1495), Julius Darmaatmadja (1934), Jan Toorop (1858), Diponegoro (1785), Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925), and Dharmakirti (700). After him are Lil Dagover (1887), Hendrik Brouwer (1581), Adam Malik (1917), Raden Saleh (1811), Hella Haasse (1918), and Tan Malaka (1897).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Indonesia

Among physicists born in Indonesia, George Uhlenbeck ranks 1. After him are Adriaan Fokker (1887).

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