George Uhlenbeck
- Born: December 6, 1900 (Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies)
- Died: October 31, 1988 (Boulder, Colorado)
Education
- 1927: PhD, University of Leiden
Major Positions
- 1927–1935: University of Michigan, Instructor to Associte Professor of Physics
- 1935–1939: University of Utrecht, Professor of Physics
- 1939–1954: University of Michigan, Professor of Physics
- 1954–1960: University of Michigan, Henry S. Carhart Professor of Physics
- 1960–1974: Rockefeller University, Professor of Physics
- 1974–1988: Rockefeller University, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1943–1945: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Researcher
- 1954–1955: University of Leiden, Lorentz Professor
- 1963–1964: University of Amsterdam, Van der Waals Professor
- 1959–1959: American Physical Society, President
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1955: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1976: National Medal of Science
- 1979: Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics
Archival Resources
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Online Finding Aid
Rockefeller Archive Center, North Tarrytown, New York
Published Resources
George W. Ford, "George Eugene Uhlenbeck: 1900-1988", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
George E. Uhlenbeck, "Fifty Years of Spin: Personal Reminiscences," Physics Today 29 (1976): 43-48
Abraham Pais, "George Uhlenbeck and the Discovery of Electron Spin," Physics Today 41 (1989): 34-40
Nadia Robotti, "Quantum Numbers and Electronic Spin: The History of a Discovery," Archives Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 40 (1990): 305-331
E. G. D. Cohen, "George E. Uhlenbeck and Statistical Mechanics," American Journal of Physics 58 (1990): 619-625
Allan Franklin, "The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of β Decay: Its Proposal and Refutation," in Wrong for the Right Reasons, ed. Jed Z. Buchwald and Allan Franklin (Dordrecht: Springer: 2005), 209-228
