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Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem.



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✵ 18. January 1880 – 25. September 1933
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Paul Ehrenfest Quotes

“Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory — it almost hates you yourself! How am I to provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?”

Paul Ehrenfest

about the theory of general relativity, in a letter dated November 24, 1919, to Albert Einstein.

“You will get your difficulties with the point electron.”

Paul Ehrenfest

as quoted by Hendrik Casimir in an interview http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4550_1.html by Thomas Kuhn, Léon Rosenfeld, Aage Bohr and Erik Ruedinger at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, 5 and 6 July, 1963. <br class="br">Attributed

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