Myron Mathisson
Myron Mathisson (1897–1940) was a theoretical physicist of Polish and Jewish decent, who specialized in general relativity and relativistic quantum mechanics.
Life and work
Education
Mathisson was born in Warsaw, 4th of December 1897. He graduated from a high school[which?] there with a gold medal in 1915. He began his studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology. Then, from 1917 he studied at the University of Warsaw where he graduated in 1924 under the guidance of professor Czeslaw Białobrzeski.
Military service
Between the years 1918-1919 he served in the military.
Physics research
In 1930 earned his doctorate at the University of Warsaw on the work of Sur le movement tournant d'un corps dans un champ de gravitation, and began to live there in 1932. He became a professor at the University of Kazan in 1936. The following year, he returned to Warsaw. He corresponded with Albert Einstein. In the years 1937-1939 he was in Krakow Jagiellonian University where he worked under the guidance of prof. John Weyssenhoff .
His works have been recognized by professor Wenceslas Dziewulskiego. Niels Bohr invited him to Copenhagen. In 1939 he went to Paris, where he met with Jacques Hadamard and to Cambridge, where he met with Paul Dirac who published posthumously his recent work and posted his memory in Nature[1].
Other work
Due to the difficult financial situation, Mathisson had to make a living as a Hebrew translator, draftsman producing technical drawings, and engineering calculations of the statics of reinforced concrete structures.
Mathisson died of tuberculosis in Cambridge on the 13th of September 1940.
Publications
During his short lifetime, he published 10 scientific papers.
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References
- ^ "?". Nature. 146: 613. 1940.
- J. Eisenstaedt, A.J. Kox (1992). Studies in the History of General Relativity. Einstein Studies. Vol. 3. Springer. p. 400. ISBN 0-817-634-797.