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Gregory Breit

American physicist

Died when: 82 years 59 days (985 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Gregory Breit

Gregory Breit (Russian: Григорий Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, Grigory Alfredovich Breit-Shneider;

July 14, 1899, Mykolaiv, Kherson Governorate – September 13, 1981, Salem, Oregon) was a Russian-born Jewish American physicist and professor at New York University (1929–1934), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1934–1947), Yale University (1947–1968), and University at Buffalo (1968–1973).

In 1921, he was Paul Ehrenfest's assistant in Leiden University.


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