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Aug 14, 1904 Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium Died on 23 Mar 1974 (aged 69)
Belgian physicist
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About Léon Rosenfeld
- Léon Rosenfeld (French: [??z?nf?ld]; 14 August 1904 in Charleroi – 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and Marxist.
- Rosenfeld was born into a secular Jewish family.
- He was a polyglot who knew eight or nine languages and was fluent in at least five of them.Rosenfeld obtained a PhD at the University of Liège in 1926, and he was a close collaborator of the physicist Niels Bohr.
- He did early work in quantum electrodynamics that predates by two decades the work by Dirac and Bergmann.
- Rosenfeld contributed to a wide range of physics fields, from statistical physics and quantum field theory to astrophysics.
- Along with Frederik Belinfante, he derived the Belinfante-Rosenfeld stress-energy tensor.
- He also founded the journal Nuclear Physics and coined the term lepton.In 1933, Rosenfeld married Dr.
- Yvonne Cambresier, who was one of the first women to obtain a Physics Ph.D from a European university.
- They had a daughter, Andrée Rosenfeld (1934–2008) and a son, Jean Rosenfeld.
