Sigurd Zienau
Born	c. 1921
Died	October 18, 1976
Residence	United Kingdom
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University College London University of Liverpool
Alma mater	Birkbeck College
Academic advisors	Walter Heitler Wolfgang Pauli Herbert Fröhlich
Doctoral students	Paul C. W. Davies Hugh Osborn Patricio Cordero
Known for	Theory of the polaron
Influenced	Freya Mathews[1]

Sigurd Zienau (1921-1976) was a physicist notable for the theory of the polaron.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 See also 4 References 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] Education

His undergraduate studies were in mathematics at Birkbeck College. His further studies in physics were very much in the 'old school' European style at the time and he variously studied under Walter Heitler, Wolfgang Pauli, and Herbert Fröhlich.

[edit] Career

In 1954, he became an ICI Fellow and lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Then in 1965, he became a Reader in Physics at University College London until his early death at the age of 55. As well as his work on polarons he is remembered for his insightful revisions of Walter Heitler's book Quantum Theory of Radiation and Nevill Francis Mott & Harrie Massey's book The Theory of Atomic Collisions.

[edit] See also

• Polaron
• Edwin Power
• Walter Heitler

[edit] References

• E. A. Power and F. F. Heymann, "Sigurd Zienau," (Obituary) Nature, Vol. 266, pp. 201-202, 1977.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Zienau's math genealogy
• Zienau letter to Needham
• History of Physics at UCL with reference to Zienau
• History of Physics at UCL with reference to Zienau, Osborn & Cordero