Léon Rosenfeld (14 August 1904 – 23 March 1974[1]) was a Belgian physicist. He obtained a PhD at the University of Liège in 1926, and he was a collaborator of the physicist Niels Bohr. He did early work in quantum electrodynamics that predates by two decades the work by Dirac and Bergmann.[2] He coined the name lepton.[3] In 1949 Léon Rosenfeld was awarded the Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences.
[edit] References
- ^ Léon Rosenfeld's Marxist defense of complementarity, by Anja Skaar Jacobsen [1]
- ^ Leon Rosenfeld and the challenge of the vanishing momentum in quantum electrodynamics, by Donald Salisbury [2]
- ^ Rosenfeld, Léon (1948). Nuclear Forces. Interscience Publishers, New York, xvii.
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Rosenfeld, Leon |
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physicist |
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14 August 1904 |
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23 March 1974 |
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