Paul Ehrenfest : The Making of a Theoretical Physicist

This volume covers Ehrenfest's life and work up to 1920: his childhood in a Jewish family in Vienna, his student years in Vienna and GÖttingen and the five years he spent in Russia before World War I. In 1912 he succeeded H.A. Lorentz at Leiden and his early years there are covered in detail. He was a close personal friend of Albert Einstein and the first decade of this friendship is portrayed through their correspondence.Klein, Martin J. is the author of 'Paul Ehrenfest : The Making of a Theoretical Physicist', published 1985 under ISBN 9780444869487 and ISBN 0444869484.