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Ehrenfestian
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Etymology
From en Ehrenfest -ian.
Adjective
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Of or relating to Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), Austrian physicist and mathematician.
en 2016 Enric Pérez; Blai Pié i Valls Bohr and Ehrenfest: transformations and correspondences in the early 1920s w:European Physical Journal H 41 10.1140/epjh/e2016-60028-1 108 The impossibility of explaining the Stern-Gerlach result is what he and Ehrenfest tried to show with their “little calculation”. This joint paper had a markedly Ehrenfestian character, as in it, after expounding several arguments, the issue remains open.
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