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Polish physicist (1898–1968)

Person · Open Library

Born
1898
Died
1968
Works
30

Top works

  • Quest, the evolution of a scientist
  • The fourth dimension and relativity
  • Conférence internationale sur les théories relativistes de la gravitation
  • The world in modern science
  • Galois lectures

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1882-04-18
Active to
1977-09-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • … mathematicians progress only by doubt, through humble and constant attempts to impinge on the immense domain of the unknown.

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Key facts

Born
20 August 1898 ( 1898-08-20 ) , Kraków , Austria-Hungary , later Poland
Died
15 January 1968 (1968-01-15) (aged 69), Warsaw , Poland
Citizenship
Austrian (1898–1918), Polish (1918–1968), Canadian (1939–50)
Alma mater
Jagiellonian University
Known for
Infeld–Van der Waerden symbols , Born–Infeld theory , Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations , Infeld–Hull factorization method
Children
Eryk Infeld [ pl ]
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Cambridge University , Jagiellonian University , University of Lwów , Princeton University , University of Toronto
Doctoral students
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Alfred Schild , Andrzej Trautman , P. R. Wallace

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Leopold
Gender
male
Citizenship
Poland
Place of birth
Kraków
Place of death
Warsaw
Occupation
journalist
Languages spoken
Polish
Doctoral advisor
Władysław Natanson
Doctoral student
P. R. Wallace
Field of work
physics
Image
Leopold Infeld 1960.jpg
Residence
Poland
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Commons category
Leopold Infeld
date of birth
1898-08-20
date of death
1968-01-15
Erdős number
3
name in native language
Leopold Infeld
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WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview

Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Early life

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