Nathan Rosen
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John Clarke Slater | |
Other academic advisors | Albert Einstein |
Doctoral students | Moshe Carmeli Asher Peres Joshua Zak |
Nathan Rosen (
Background
Nathan Rosen was born into a
State of science
At the beginning of the 20th century science was progressing quickly and the inner workings of the atom were just beginning to be discovered. In 1900, Max Planck proposed the quantum theory, the idea that all energy moves in discrete amounts called quanta. In 1905, Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, which would be instrumental in the progression of physics and the understanding of the universe. Around 1927, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, collaborating with many other physicists, developed the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, determining the probabilities of the movement of particles. These breakthroughs provided the model for the structure and workings of the atom and drove the revolution that would sweep up Nathan Rosen.
Work with Einstein
In 1932 with a ScD degree
After leaving Princeton, Rosen continued to publish on relativity with "General Relativity and Flat Space"
Between 1940 and 1989 Rosen published a series of articles on his versions of bimetric gravity, an attempt to improve on General Relativity by removing singularities and replacing pseudo-tensors with tensors to eliminate nonlocality. The effort eventually failed in 1992 with conflicting pulsar data.
Later years
Later in his life, Nathan Rosen turned his attentions to teaching and the establishment of new universities. After briefly working for two years in the Soviet Union at the University of Kiev starting in 1936, he returned to the United States, where he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1941 to 1952. In 1953, after permanently moving to Israel, he joined the Technion in Haifa, Israel. During this time Rosen was advisor to Asher Peres. Technion now has a lecture series named for him. He was President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the 1970s and commuted between the two institutions from his home in Haifa. Additionally, Nathan Rosen helped found the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Physical Society of Israel (serving as president from 1955 to 1957), and the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (president 1974-77). He was very active in encouraging the founding of higher educational institutions in Israel.
He died on December 18, 1995, at his home in Haifa at the age of 86.[11]
Contributions to physics
Rosen made a number of contributions to modern physics. One of the most lasting discoveries Rosen brought to physics was his formulation of the structure of the
He also developed a theoretical analysis of the neutron as a combination of proton and electron in a 1931 article in the Physical Review.[12]
Selected publications
- Einstein, A; B Podolsky; N Rosen (1935-05-15). "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?" (PDF). .
- Einstein, Albert & Rosen, Nathan (1935). "The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity". .
- Einstein, Albert & Rosen, Nathan (1937). "On Gravitational waves". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 223: 43–54. .
- Rosen, Nathan (1958). "Energy and momentum of cylindrical gravitational waves". Physical Review. 110 (1): 291. S2CID 122137402.
- Rosen, Nathan & Virbhadra, KS (1993). "Energy and momentum of cylindrical gravitational waves". General Relativity and Gravitation. 25 (4): 429–433. S2CID 128145567.
- Rosen, Nathan (1940). "General Relativity and Flat Space. I". Physical Review. 57 (2): 147. .
See also
- Rindler coordinates, for an account of the strange episode of Einstein and Rosen 1937
- Zero-energy universe
References
- ^ a b "Peres, Asher. "Nathan Rosen." Technion Physics Department. 8 June 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Nathan Rosen, 86, of Israel; Physicist Worked With Einstein ." The New York Times 23 Dec. 1995, sec. 1: 28.
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- ^ Jones, Andrew Zimmerman. "Definition of Wormhole - Theory of Relativity". Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ Wolfgang Saxon (December 23, 1995). "Nathan Rosen, 86, of Israel; Physicist Worked With Einstein". The New York Times.
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Sources
- Peres, Asher. "Nathan Rosen." Technion Physics Department. 8 June 2009.
- December 18 - Today in Science
- George, Samuel Joseph. “The Einstein-Rosen Bridge.”
- PBS Online: Stephen Hawking’s Universe.
- Saxon, Wolfgang. Nathan Rosen, 86, of Israel; Physicist Worked With Einstein, The New York Times 23 Dec. 1995, sec. 1: 28.