Leopold Infeld
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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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- 1
- Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,994x
- Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue
· 1994 · cited 10,098x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,185x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- [12] Assays of glutathione peroxidase
· 1984 · cited 3,897x
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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
- Employer
- Leipzig University
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Notable work
- Born–Infeld model
- Doctoral advisor
- Władysław Natanson
- Doctoral student
- P. R. Wallace
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Leopold Infeld 1960.jpg
- Residence
- Poland
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- place of burial
- Powązki Military Cemetery
- Commons category
- Leopold Infeld
- date of birth
- 1898-08-20
- date of death
- 1968-01-15
- member of
- Polish Physical Society
- Erdős number
- 3
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Leopold Infeld
- maintained by WikiProject
- 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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