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Formulated by Leslie Lawrance Foldy and Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen in 1949.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A unitary transformation of the orthonormal basis in which both the Hamiltonian and the state are represented; it has applications in high-energy physics. Full definition →
Formulated by Leslie Lawrance Foldy and Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen in 1949.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.