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Edward Burr Van Vleck (June 7, 1863 – June 2, 1943) was an American mathematician.
Edward Burr Van Vleck (* 7. Juni 1863 in Middletown (Connecticut) ; † 3. Juni 1943 in Madison (Wisconsin) ) war ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Funktionentheorie und Differentialgleichungen befasste.
He produced the first quantum mechanical theory of magnetism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1977 for his work on the behaviour of electrons in magnetic, noncrystalline solid materials.
Edward Burr Van Vleck was the second member in a distinguished three member academic dynasty consisting of the grandfather, John Monroe Van Vleck, an astronomer, the father, Edward Burr Van Vleck, a mathematician, and the son, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, a physicist and Nobel Prize winner in 1977.
Van Vleck was born to mathematician Edward Burr Van Vleck and Hester L. Raymond in Middletown, Connecticut, while his father was an assistant professor at Wesleyan University, and where his grandfather, astronomer John Monroe Van Vleck, was also a professor.
Edward Burr Van Vleck. President, 1913–1914. Ph.D. University of Göttingen, Germany, 1893. Van Vleck was greatly influenced by his study under Felix Klein at the University of Göttingen.
Edward Burr Van Vleck (* 7. Juni 1863 in Middletown (Connecticut); † 3. Juni 1943 in Madison (Wisconsin)) war ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Funktionentheorie und Differentialgleichungen befasste.
