Paul Ehrenfest’s Rough Road to Leiden: A Physicist’s Search for a Position, 1904–1912 |
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Authors: | Pim Huijnen A J Kox |
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Institution: | (1) Department of History, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(2) Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933) received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Vienna in 1904 and moved with his wife and young
daughter to St. Petersburg in 1907, where he remained until he succeeded Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928) in the chair of
theoretical physics at the University of Leiden in 1912. Drawing upon Ehrenfest’s correspondence of the period, we first examine
Ehrenfest’s difficult and insecure years in St. Petersburg and then discuss his unsuccessful attempts to obtain a position
elsewhere before he was appointed as Lorentz’s successor in Leiden.
Pim Huijnen is writing a doctoral dissertation in history; the present paper is based upon his Master’s Thesis, “‘Die Grenze
des Pathologischen’: Het leven van fysicus Paul Ehrenfest, 1904–1912,” University of Groningen, 2003. A.J.Kox is Pieter Zeeman
Professor of History of Physics at the University of Amsterdam. |
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Keywords: | Paul Ehrenfest Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanassjewa Ehrenfest Hugo Ehrenfest Ludwig Boltzmann Theodor Des Coudres Peter Debye Albert Einstein Gustav Herglotz Abram Fedorovitch Joffe Felix Klein Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Max Planck Arnold Sommerfeld University of Vienna University of St Petersburg University of Leiden anti-Semitism quantum theory statistical mechanics |
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