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Born in Amsterdam, he was the son of Philip Kohnstamm, a professor of theoretical physics and a colleague of Albert Einstein, Paul Ehrenfest and other luminaries of the period who were regular visitors to the family home.
Max Kohnstamm obituary John Palmer 2010
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He joined a campaign to raise money for Zionism, led by Chaim Weizmann (who would become Israel's first president), and sparred with physicists including Niels Bohr and Paul Ehrenfest about quantum theory — a man of physics and, equally, of world politics.
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Einstein, whose name is now synonymous with genius was a frequent guest lecturer at Leiden in the 1920s due to his friendship with physicist Paul Ehrenfest, among whose papers the manuscript was found.
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Einstein, whose name is now synonymous with genius was a frequent guest lecturer at Leiden in the 1920s due to his friendship with physicist Paul Ehrenfest, among whose papers the manuscript was found.
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However, argued Kuhn, Planck did not have in mind a genuine physical discontinuity of energies until 1908, which is after Albert Einstein and Paul Ehrenfest had themselves emphasized it in
Thomas Kuhn Bird, Alexander 2004
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Here is how Einstein explained his change of perspective in a letter to Paul Ehrenfest of 26 December 1915, just a few weeks after the publication of the final, generally covariant formulation of the general theory of relativity:
Einstein's Philosophy of Science Howard, Don A. 2004
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In the less kind words of Paul Ehrenfest, it was “a kind of intellectual jungle.”
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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In the less kind words of Paul Ehrenfest, it was “a kind of intellectual jungle.”
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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In the less kind words of Paul Ehrenfest, it was “a kind of intellectual jungle.”
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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We know this from a letter that Paul Ehrenfest wrote to Bohr in July 1931, after a visit with Einstein in Berlin.
Scientific Blogging 2009
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