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I mostly scanned the article as it's getting late but it doesn't look like they discussed the funniest part of the story. Ernst Ising himself after grad school
by noobermin 6y ago
I mostly scanned the article as it's getting late but it doesn't look like they discussed the funniest part of the story. Ernst Ising himself after grad school essentially become an obscure teacher and not a researcher, and I believe only until decades later did he become aware that his model was now the quintessential simple model for classical spins. It's funny especially given his name was attached to the model.
- labster 6y agoLooked up Ising’s story on Wikipedia. It doesn’t seem funny to me that he was unaware of the progress in the literature after being forced out of his job, then his country, then finally doing forced labor for the Wehrmacht. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Ising https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Ising