Ernst Ising Facts
Ernst Ising Facts
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| Ising was born in Cologne in 1900 to Thekla Ising and a merchant name Gustav Ising. |
| In 1902 the family moved to Bochum where he started school in 1907. |
| After completed Gymnasium in 1918, he went for compulsory military training but the war was over before he could be sent on a mission. |
| Beginning in 1919 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Gottingen. |
| While studying at the University of Hamburg he met Wilhelm Lenz who encouraged him to study theoretical physics. |
| In 1922 he began his studies of ferromagnetism which resulted in his dissertation which was accepted by the faculty of mathematics and natural sciences in 1924 which awarded him a PhD. |
| His thesis studied the problem of magnetic moments and phase transitions between ferromagnetic and paramagnetic states. |
| His model has great scientific significance in diverse fields including the study of neural networks, protein folding, and biological membranes. |
| Ising spent several years as a teacher but when Hitler came to power in 1933, Jews were barred from teaching. |
| In 1934 he found a position at a Jewish school in Caputh located near the summer home of Alfred Einstein. |
| In 1938 the school was destroyed by the Nazis and he and his wife, Johanna fled to Luxembourg where they were forced to work menial jobs to survive. |
| In 1947 they were able to emigrate to the U.S. where he became a Professor of Physics at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. |
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