Leopold Infeld

Polish physicist (1898–1968)

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Born: 1898
Died: 1968
Works: 30

Top works

Quest, the evolution of a scientist
The fourth dimension and relativity
Conférence internationale sur les théories relativistes de la gravitation
The world in modern science
Galois lectures

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Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1882-04-18
Active to: 1977-09-13

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Listeners: 1
Total plays: 1

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5 total works indexed

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue
· 1994 · cited 10,060x
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,085x
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,394x
[12] Assays of glutathione peroxidase
· 1984 · cited 3,871x

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Quotes

“… mathematicians progress only by doubt, through humble and constant attempts to impinge on the immense domain of the unknown.”

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Key facts

Born: 20 August 1898 ( 1898-08-20 ) , Kraków , Austria-Hungary , later Poland
Died: 15 January 1968 (1968-01-15) (aged 69), Warsaw , Poland
Citizenship: Austrian (1898–1918), Polish (1918–1968), Canadian (1939–50)
Alma mater: Jagiellonian University
Known for: Infeld–Van der Waerden symbols , Born–Infeld theory , Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations , Infeld–Hull factorization method
Children: Eryk Infeld [ pl ]
Fields: Physics
Institutions: Cambridge University , Jagiellonian University , University of Lwów , Princeton University , University of Toronto
Doctoral students: Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Alfred Schild , Andrzej Trautman , P. R. Wallace

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date of birth: 1898-08-20
date of death: 1968-01-15
Erdős number: 3
name in native language: Leopold Infeld

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Leopold Infeld (20 August 1898 – 15 January 1968) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Early life