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| First edition. Klein's doctoral dissertation, "an important study of the statistical theory of suspensions and solutions based on Josiah Willard Gibbs's statistical methods"(Karl von Meyenn & Mariano Baig in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 17, p. 480). Klein [1894-1977], Professor of mathematical physics at the University of Stockholm 1930-62, introduced the relativistic wave equation (Klein-Gordon equation). Deeply involved in Bohr's work on correspondence and complementarity. The Klein-Nishina formula (1929) convinced many physicists of the soundness of Dirac's relativistic equation, in spite of difficulties, one of them known as Klein's paradox. He worked on statistical mechanics, superconductivity (with Jens Lindhard, 1945), distributions of chemical elements and cosmology (cosmological model with Alfvén, 1963). Arkiv för Matematik, Astronomi och Fysik, 16:5. |