Bruria Kaufman | |
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Born | New York City, United States | August 21, 1918
Died | January 7, 2010 Haifa, Israel | (aged 91)
Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Columbia University |
Known for | Contributions to general relativity, statistical physics, Ising model, Mössbauer effect |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical Physics |
Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study, University of Pennsylvania, Weizmann Institute of Science, University of Haifa |
Bruria Kaufman (August 21, 1918 – January 7, 2010) was an Israeli American theoretical physicist. She contributed to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, to statistical physics, where she used applied spinor analysis to rederive the result of Lars Onsager on the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising model, and to the study of the Mössbauer effect, on which she collaborated with John von Neumann and Harry Lipkin.