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George Eugene Uhlenbeck

(6 Dec 1900 - 31 Oct 1988)

Dutch-American physicist.

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[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

— Abraham Pais

'The Physical Review Then and Now', in H. Henry Stroke, Physical Review: The First Hundred Years: a Selection of Seminal Papers and Commentaries, Vol. 1, 3.

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