Ehrenfest
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Ehrenfest is a surname which may refer to:
- Paul EhrenfestPaul EhrenfestPaul Ehrenfest was an Austrian and Dutch physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem.- Biography :Paul Ehrenfest was born and grew up in Vienna in a Jewish...
, a Jewish Austrian physicist and mathematician- Ehrenfest equationsEhrenfest equationsEhrenfest equations — equations which describe changes in specific heat capacity and derivatives of specific volume in second-order phase transitions...
- Ehrenfest modelEhrenfest modelThe Ehrenfest model of diffusion was proposed by Paul Ehrenfest to explain the second law of thermodynamics. The model considers N particles in two containers. Particles independently change container at a rate λ...
- Ehrenfest paradoxEhrenfest paradoxThe Ehrenfest paradox concerns the rotation of a "rigid" disc in the theory of relativity.In its original formulation as presented by Paul Ehrenfest 1909 in the Physikalische Zeitschrift, it discusses an ideally rigid cylinder that is made to rotate about its axis of symmetry...
and Ehrenfest theoremEhrenfest theoremThe Ehrenfest theorem, named after Paul Ehrenfest, the Austrian physicist and mathematician, relates the time derivative of the expectation value for a quantum mechanical operator to the commutator of that operator with the Hamiltonian of the system...
, named after him - Ehrenfest theoremEhrenfest theoremThe Ehrenfest theorem, named after Paul Ehrenfest, the Austrian physicist and mathematician, relates the time derivative of the expectation value for a quantum mechanical operator to the commutator of that operator with the Hamiltonian of the system...
- 32796 Ehrenfest32796 Ehrenfest32796 Ehrenfest is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on March 2, 1990. It is named after Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian-Dutch physicist and mathematician of the 19th and 20th centuries.-External links:...
- Ehrenfest equations
- Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa, an Ukrainian-Russian mathematician, wife of Paul
- Tanja van Aardenne-EhrenfestTatyana Pavlovna EhrenfestTatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, later van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, was a Dutch mathematician. She was the daughter of Paul Ehrenfest and Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva .Tatyana Ehrenfest was born in Vienna, and spent her childhood in St Petersburg...
(1905 - 1984), an Austrian Dutch mathematician, daughter of Paul
See also
- Ehrenfeld (disambiguation)
- Ehrenfels (disambiguation)
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- Ehrenberg (disambiguation)
- Ehrenburg (disambiguation)
- Ehrenhaft
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- Ehrenstein (disambiguation)
- Ehrenthal