Infeld, Leopold

(1898-1968)
Physics / Applied Mathematics (1939-1950)
Left Canada for Poland (University of Warsaw) 1950
Friend and collaborator of Albert Einstein (co--formulated the equation describing star movements, and co-authored with Einstein of The Evolution of Physics)
Signatory to Russell-Einstein Manifesto 1955

References

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Infeld.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Infeld

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Infeld_Leopold

http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=16268

Why I Left Canada: Reflections on Science and Politics. Ed. Lewis Pyenson. Trans. Helen Infeld. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1978.

Horn, Michiel. ‘A Cold War tale: Leopold Infeld and the University of Toronto.’ Dalhousie Review 79/3 (1999), 319-333.