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American-Israeli physicist

Key facts

Born
March 22, 1909, Brooklyn , New York, U.S.
Died
December 18, 1995 (age 86), Haifa , Israel
Citizenship
Israel, United States
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for
EPR paradox , Einstein–Rosen bridge , Einstein–Rosen metric , Rosen–Morse potential , Bimetric gravity , Sticky bead argument
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Institute for Advanced Study , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill , Technion – Israel Institute of Technology , Ben Gurion University
Thesis
Calculation of energies of diatomic molecules
Doctoral advisor
John Clarke Slater
Other academic advisors
Albert Einstein
Doctoral students
Moshe Carmeli , Asher Peres , Joshua Zak

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Nathan
Family name
Rosen
Gender
male
Citizenship
Israel
Place of birth
Brooklyn
Place of death
Haifa
Notable work
EPR paradox
Participant in
Manhattan Project
Doctoral advisor
John C. Slater
Field of work
physicist
Residence
Israel
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date of birth
1909-03-22
date of death
1995-12-18
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Nathan Rosen
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Encyclopedic overview

Nathan Rosen (Hebrew: נתן רוזן; March 22, 1909 – December 18, 1995) was an American and Israeli physicist noted for his study on the structure of the hydrogen molecule and his collaboration with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox. He is also remembered for the Einstein–Rosen bridge, the first known kind of wormhole.

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