Ehrenfestian

English

Etymology

From Ehrenfest +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Ehrenfestian (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), Austrian physicist and mathematician.
   • 2016, Enric Pérez, Blai Pié i Valls, “Bohr and Ehrenfest: transformations and correspondences in the early 1920s”, in European Physical Journal H, volume 41, →DOI, page 108:

     The impossibility of explaining the Stern-Gerlach result is what he and Ehrenfest tried to show with their “little calculation”. This joint paper had a markedly Ehrenfestian character, as in it, after expounding several arguments, the issue remains open.