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| G. E. Uhlenbeck | |
 George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, and Samuel Goudsmit circa 1928 in Ann Arbor.
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| Born | December 6, 1900 Batavia, Dutch East Indies |
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| Died | October 31, 1988 Boulder, Colorado, USA |
| Residence | USA Netherlands |
| Citizenship | American |
| Ethnicity | Dutch |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | MIT University of Michigan Rockefeller Institute Princeton University |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Ehrenfest |
| Doctoral students | Max Dresden Ronald Forrest Fox Boris Kahn Emil Konopinski Harold Hwa-Ling Szu |
| Known for | Electron spin |
| Influenced | Walter S. Huxford |
| Notable awards | Max Planck medal (1964) Lorentz Medal (1970) Wolf Prize in Physics (1979) |
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He was the father of the biophysicist Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck and the father-in-law of the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck. |
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George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900, Batavia, Dutch East Indies – October 31, 1988, Boulder, Colorado) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. He introduced the concept of electron spin, which posits that electrons rotate on an axis, with Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, for which they were awarded the Max Planck medal in 1964. Uhlenbeck was also awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1970 and Wolf Prize in Physics in 1979.
Other important work includes co-inventing the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process which describes Brownian motion of particles in a fluid with friction.
He was a student of Austrian physicist and mathematician Paul Ehrenfest.
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- K. van Berkel, Uhlenbeck, George Eugène (1900-1988), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George Eugene Uhlenbeck", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- S.A. Goudsmit. The discovery of the electron spin
- Uhlenbeck's math genealogy
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