George Uhlenbeck

George Uhlenbeck
G.E. Uhlenbeck
Born	George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900-12-06)December 6, 1900 Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta)
Died	October 31, 1988(1988-10-31) (aged 87) Boulder, Colorado, US
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Leiden
Known for	Electron spin Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process Uehling–Uhlenbeck equation
Children	Olke C. Uhlenbeck
Awards	Oersted Medal (1955) Max Planck medal (1964) Lorentz Medal (1970) National Medal of Science (1977) Wolf Prize in Physics (1979)
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Columbia University MIT University of Michigan Rockefeller Institute Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Paul Ehrenfest
Doctoral students	Max Dresden George W. Ford Emil Konopinski Edwin Albrecht Uehling Seth Putterman Wang Chengshu

George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist,^[1] known for his significant contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He co-developed the concept of electron spin, alongside Samuel Goudsmit, in 1925. The formalization of Langevin equation for the Brownian motion as a stochastic process, is known as the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, derived in 1930 from his work with Leonard Ornstein. I. I. Rabi said that Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit's omission for the Nobel Prize in Physics "will always be a mystery to me".^[2]