Nathan Rosen

Nathan Rosen ( born March 22, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City; † 18 December 1995, Haifa ) was an American- Israeli physicist.

Life and work

Rose studied Electrical Engineering ( bachelor's degree ) and then Physics ( with master's degrees in 1929 ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he in 1932 with the work " Calculation of Energies of Diatomic Molecules " in John C. Slater received his doctorate. Subsequently he was a National Research Fellow at the University of Michigan and Princeton University, where he met with a theoretical molecular physics employed (model of the hydrogen molecule ). However, he already wrote his master's thesis on gravitational physics and contacted in Princeton, Albert Einstein, to find out his opinion about it. 1934 to 1936 he was an assistant of Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study. After that, he was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Kiev ( on the recommendation of Einstein) and from 1941 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before he went to Israel, where he was the founder and from 1953 professor at the Technion in Haifa of the local Institute for Theoretical Physics. He was there temporarily head of the Physics Department and the Department of Nuclear Engineering. In 1977 he was Distinguished Professor at the Technion. In 1979 he became Professor Emeritus, but continued to teach Gravitational Physics at the Technion (as Gerard Swope Professor Emeritus) until 1991. In Israel, he was also in the development of engineering education at the Ben Gurion University in Beersheba involved (1969 to 1971 he was there Dean of Engineering ).

In 1935 he published together with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky, a thought experiment, which was known as the EPR effect. The title of the original publication is Can Quantum -Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? ( Published in Phys. Rev.. Volume 47, 1935, pp. 777-780 ). The basic idea came from roses, for the used entangled states, which he had used in his study of the hydrogen molecule. In addition, Nathan Rosen co-discoverer of the Einstein -Rosen bridge ( wormhole ) in the general theory of relativity was (AR). Your at that time the goal was, at that time represent elementary primarily electrons, as solutions of the field equations of GR with electromagnetic fields. However, 1962 showed John Archibald Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller, the Einstein - Rosen bridges are unstable, in solutions of the field equations with ordinary matter.

With Einstein, he also wrote a paper on gravitational waves ( of which Einstein said initially, they would not be exact solutions of the field equations, but then changed his mind ) that led to the dispute by Einstein with the anonymous reviewers of the work in Physical Review, the information missing the extent to which Einstein had requested the opinion of other scientists. As a result, Einstein published no longer in Physical Review, the paper was published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute ( Bd.48, 1935, p.73).

While still a student, he published a work entitled The neutron, in which he a bound state of proton and electron described (one year before the discovery by James Chadwick ).

In 1968 he received the Weizmann Prize for Natural Sciences. He was a founding member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and the Israel Physical Society. In 1975 he was awarded the Landau Research Award.

His students include the gravitational physicist Moshe Carmeli and Asher Peres.

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