Paul Ehrenfest
Dutch physicist
Born on: January 18, 1880Died on: September 25, 1933
Aged: 53 years 250 days (644 months)
Birth Sign: Capricorn
Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian theoretical physicist who made major contributions to statistical mechanics and its relation to quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem.
He befriended Albert Einstein on a visit to Prague in 1912 and became a professor in Leiden, where he frequently hosted Einstein.
Suffering from depression, in 1933 Ehrenfest killed his disabled son, Wassik, and then himself.
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