Léon Rosenfeld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léon Rosenfeld

Belgian physicist

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1904

Place of Birth: Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1974

Profession: scientist, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Léon Rosenfeld (French: [??z?nf?ld]; 14 August 1904 in Charleroi – 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and Marxist.
Rosenfeld was born into a secular Jewish family.
He was a polyglot who knew eight or nine languages and was fluent in at least five of them.Rosenfeld obtained a PhD at the University of Liège in 1926, and he was a close collaborator of the physicist Niels Bohr.
He did early work in quantum electrodynamics that predates by two decades the work by Dirac and Bergmann.
Rosenfeld contributed to a wide range of physics fields, from statistical physics and quantum field theory to astrophysics.
Along with Frederik Belinfante, he derived the Belinfante-Rosenfeld stress-energy tensor.
He also founded the journal Nuclear Physics and coined the term lepton.In 1933, Rosenfeld married Dr.
Yvonne Cambresier, who was one of the first women to obtain a Physics Ph.D from a European university.
They had a daughter, Andrée Rosenfeld (1934–2008) and a son, Jean Rosenfeld.