George Uhlenbeck

George Eugène Uhlenbeck was a male physicist and university teacher who held citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United States. He worked at the University of Michigan, Utrecht University, The Rockefeller University, and Leiden University. His professional focus included theoretical physics and physics. Uhlenbeck was educated at Delft University of Technology and Leiden University.

He received the Max Planck Medal, Lorentz Medal, Oersted Medal, and National Medal of Science. Uhlenbeck was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society, and National Academy of Sciences. He spoke Dutch, English, and German.

Born on 1900-12-06, Uhlenbeck died of a stroke on 1988-10-31 in Boulder. His doctoral advisor was Paul Ehrenfest. He supervised doctoral student Emil Konopinski and had student Abraham Pais. He has an Erdős number of 2.