Past Research Assistant
Bruria Kaufman
Affiliation
Math/NS
From the Max Planck Institut Informatik:
Bruria Kaufman was an Israeli theoretical physicist known for contributions to Albert Einstein’s theory of general 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.
Dates at IAS
Research Assistant
Math/NS
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Member
Math/NS
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Research Assistant
School of Mathematics
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Degrees
Columbia University
Ph.D.
1947
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A.
1938
Honors
American Mathematical Society, Member
American Physical Society, Member
