Myron Mathisson
| Myron Mathisson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Myron Mathisson 4 December 1897 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | 13 September 1940 (aged 42) Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | Poland, France, United Kingdom |
| Known for | Mathisson–Papapetrou–Dixon equations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
Theoretical Physics General relativity Hebrew translator Engineer |
| Institutions |
University of Kazan University of Warsaw Jagiellonian University |
Myron Mathisson (December 4, 1897 – September 13, 1940) was a theoretical physicist of Polish and Jewish descent. He is known for his work in general relativity, for developing a new method to analyze the properties of fundamental solutions of linear hyperbolic partial differential equations, and proved, in a special case, the Hadamard conjecture on the class of equations that satisfy the Huygens principle.
Mathisson was born in Warsaw, 4 December 1897. He graduated from a Russian philological gymnasium with a gold medal in 1915. He began his studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology. Then, from 1917 he studied at the University of Warsaw where he graduated in 1924 under the guidance of Czesław Białobrzeski.
Between the years 1918–1919 he served in the military.
In 1930, earned his doctorate at the University of Warsaw on the work of Sur le movement tournant d'un corps dans un champ de gravitation, and began to live there in 1932. He became a professor at the University of Kazan in 1936. The following year, he returned to Warsaw. He corresponded with Albert Einstein. In the years 1937–1939, he worked at the Jagiellonian University, under Jan Weyssenhoff.
His works have been recognized by Wacław Dziewulski. Niels Bohr invited him to Copenhagen. In 1939 he went to Paris, where he met with Jacques Hadamard, and to Cambridge, where he met with Paul Dirac who was impressed enough to publish his recent work posthumously, and to post his obituary.
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