Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen
Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen (1916–1996) was a Dutch physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics.
Early life
Wouthuysen was born in Amsterdam, Nederlands in 1916.
Research
Wouthuysen gained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, 1948 with a dissertation on self-energy and relativistic covariance in field theory, under his advisor J. Robert Oppenheimer.[1]
He collaborated with Leslie Lawrence Foldy to develop the Foldy–Wouthuysen transformation, and with George B. Field to develop the Wouthuysen–Field coupling.
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External links
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