Meanings
proper noun
- A surname.
The impossibility of explaining the Stern-Gerlach result is what he and Ehrenfest tried to show with their “little calculation”. This joint paper had a markedly Ehrenfestian character, as in it, after expounding several arguments, the issue remains open.
2016, Enric Pérez, Blai Pié i Valls, “Bohr and Ehrenfest: transformations and correspondences in the early 1920s”, in European Physical Journal H, volume 41, →DOI, page 108
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