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Nathan Rosen

Nathan Rosen was an American and Israeli physicist known for his work with Albert Einstein on the EPR paradox and the Einstein-Rosen bridge.

1909 to 1995The EPR paradoxThe Einstein-Rosen bridgeFounding the Technion physics facultyStructure of the hydrogen molecule

Born: 22 March 1909, Brooklyn
Died: 18 December 1995, Haifa
Occupation: theoretical physicist, university teacher, physicist
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nathan Rosen was born in 1909 in Brooklyn

Rosen was born in 1909 into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. His parents had come from Russia. After his father died, the family moved to the Boston area.

He studied at MIT, earning an engineering degree and then graduate degrees in physics. As a student he published work on the neutron and on the hydrogen molecule, using what he called entangled wave functions.

He was a research fellow at the University of Michigan and Princeton University, and from 1934 to 1936 he was Einstein's assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1935 he published with Einstein and Boris Podolsky the paper behind the EPR paradox, and with Einstein the paper on the bridge later named for them. He then worked at the University of Kiev and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 1953 he moved to Israel and joined the Technion in Haifa, where he founded the physics faculty. He helped found the Physical Society of Israel and was president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the 1970s. His students included Asher Peres.

He received the Weizmann Prize in 1968 and the Landau Prize in 1975. He died in 1995 at his home in Haifa.