Ehrenfest en de nieuwe natuurkunde in het interbellum
werk en leven van Paul Ehrenfest tussen 1916 en 1925

Ehrenfest and the New Physics in the Interbellum
Work and life of Paul Ehrenfest between 1916 and 1925

Tussen januari en augustus 2005 deed ik mijn groot onderzoek ter verkrijging van mijn doctoraal diploma Natuur- en Sterrenkunde bij Prof. Dr. Frans van Lunteren. Deze website is ter ondersteuning van dit onderzoek. Het geeft inzicht in de methode, de bronnen en de voortgang en bevat de integrale versie van mijn scriptie. Meer over mijn vondst van het Einstein manuscript is te vinden op mijn persoonlijke website. Rowdy Boeyink (e-mail)

Between January and August 2005 I did my Master's Thesis in Physics with Professor Frans van Lunteren. This website supported my research. It contains my methods, my resources and the integral version of my thesis (in Dutch). During my research I have uncovered many letters and manuscripts, including a key manuscript by Albert Einstein in which he predicts a new state of matter: the Bose-Einstein condensate. More on this can be read here. Rowdy Boeyink (e-mail)

"He was not merely the best teacher in our profession whom I have ever known; he was also passionately preoccupied with the development and destiny of men, especially his students. To understand others, to gain their friendship and trust, to aid anyone embroiled in outer or inner struggles, to encourage youthful talent - all this was his real element, almost more than his emersion in scientific problems."

Albert Einstein over Paul Ehrenfest
(In: Out of my later years, p. 236)

I am sitting and thinking of all what you have told me about so very many different things, and whateverI think of I feel that I have learned so much from you which will be of great importance for me; but, at the same time, I wish so much to express my feeling of happiness over your friendship and of thankfulness for the confidence and sympathy you have shown me, I find myself so utterly incapable of finding words for it.

Niels Bohr aan Paul Ehrenfest
(10/05/1919)

Portret Ehrenfest: http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/colloquium/colloquium.html

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