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3 unusual facts about Vladimir Fock


Mendeleev readings

Vladimir Fock — 20 April 1969 — "Can fit the chemical properties of atoms in a purely spatial representations?"

Plancherel theorem for spherical functions

hyperbolic space, these expansions were known from prior results of Mehler, Weyl and Fock.

Wendell H. Furry

He made important contributions to the early development of Quantum Field Theory with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vladimir Fock, and others.


Barry Simon

Following his doctoral studies, Simon took professorship at Princeton for many years, often working with colleague Elliott H. Lieb on the Thomas-Fermi Theory and Hartree-Fock Theory of atoms in addition to phase transitions and mentoring many of the same students as Lieb.


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