Ernst Ising and the Ising model

Biographical Notes

May 10, 1900

born in Köln (Cologne), Heumarkt 64/66
father: GUSTAV ISING, merchant
mother: THEKLA ISING, nee LÖWE

1902

The family moves to Bochum

Easter 1907

enters the school

June 1918

Reifeprüfung (high school graduation) at Gymnasium Bochum, brief military training (World War I)

Easter 1919

Göttingen University (studies of mathematics physics)

1920

Bonn University (... & astronomy)

1921

Hamburg university

1922

dissertation under the guidance of WILHELM LENZ (1888 - 1957)

July 31, 1924

completion of the thesis

1925

AEG Berlin (patent office)

1927

boarding school Salem

1928

Berlin University (studies of philosophy & pedagogy)

Nov 6, 1928

state examination before the school board in higher education (scientific part)

Aug. 26, 1930

state examination (pedagogical part)

Dec. 23, 1930

Marriage Dr. JOHANNA EHMER (*1902), economist

1930

teaching position as "Studien-Assessor" at the high school in Strausberg, later in Crossen on the Oder

Jan. 30, 1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany

March 31, 1933

Ising was dismissed from his job as a civil servant

April 10, 1934

teacher of a boarding school for Jewish children in Caputh (near Potsdam)

April 1, 1937

headmaster

Nov. 10, 1938

devastation of the boarding school in Caputh during the pogrom against Jewish population in Germany

Jan. 27, 1939

questioning by Gestapo in Berlin

1939

emigration to Luxembourg, Mersch
son THOMAS born

May 10, 1940

occupation of Luxembourg by German army

Jan. 31, 1942

Letter of Adolf Eichmann (top-secret, ref. number: RSHA IV B 4 2093 42g (391)):
"The evacuation of Jews in 'Altreich, Ostmark und Protektorat' has to be started, except for Jewish spouses of German-Jewish married-couple"

May 5, 1943

forced labour for German army ....till ...

Sep. 10, 1944

liberation by the Allies

April 9, 1947

left Rotterdam on board the freighter Lipscomb Lykes

April 21, 1947

arrival in New York

1947

teaching at the State Teacher's College in Minot (ND)

1948

Professor of Physics, Bradley University Peoria (IL)

1953

U.S.A. citenzenship (ERNEST ISING)

1976

Emeritus Bradley University

May 11, 1998

died at his home in Peoria

• Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Bradley University (1968)
• "Outstanding Teacher of America" (1971)
• Sigma Pi Sigma Honorary Member of the American Institute of Physics (1971)
• Golden Doctor Jubilee of Universität Hamburg (1974)

List of publications

1. E. ISING
   Beitrag zur Theorie des Ferro- und Paramagnetismus
   Dissertation, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Hamburgischen Universität
   Hamburg, 1924.
   unpublished, see: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/20Jh/Ising/isi_intr.html

2. E. ISING
   Beitrag zur Theorie des Ferromagnetismus
   Zeitschrift für Physik 31 (1925) 253-258.
   (number of citations of this paper 1975-2001 according ISI citation index: 603)
   translated into English: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/anglica/Chronology/20thC/Ising/isi_fm00.html

3. E. ISING
   Goethe as a Physicist
   American Journal of Physics 18 (1950) 235-236.

History of the Lenz-Ising Model

• S. G. Brush
  History of the Lenz-Ising Model
  Rev. Mod. Phys 39 (1962) 883-893

• M. Niss
  History of the Lenz-Ising Model 1920-1950: From Ferromagnetic to Cooperative Phenomena
  Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 59 (2005) 267-318
  and references therein

ISING WEB Sites

Education, tutorial and simulations:

http://www.physics.cornell.edu/sethna/teaching/sss/ising/intro.htm
http://oscar.cacr.caltech.edu/Hrothgar/Ising/intro.html
http://www.treasure-troves.com/physics/IsingModel.html
http://www.lactamme.polytechnique.fr

Reviews

http://www.amsci.org/amsci/issues/comsci00/compsci2000%2D09.html

www-references:

http://oscar.cacr.caltech.edu/Hrothgar/Ising/references.html

Thesis:

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/20Jh/Ising/isi_intr.html

Obituary:

http://www.bradley.edu/las/phy/personnel/isingobit.html

Photo:

http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/ising.jpg

Photo of the N. BOHR meeting in Berlin, April 1920 (with W. Lenz):

http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/bohr20.jpg

9:00	Opening address Dr. Johanna Ising's letter
	Kobe, Sigismund Ernst Ising - biographical notes
9:15 - 9:45	Jan, Naeem Ising model and simple scaling
9.45 - 10:15	Novotny, Mark Nucleation in the Ising model
10:15 - 10:45	Hüller, Alfred Microcanonical analysis of finite size Ising systems
10:45 - 11:15	Ito, Nobuyasu Non-equilibrium relaxation process of the Ising model
11:15 - 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:10	Hartmann, Alexander Optimization methods for spin glasses
12:10 - 12:30	Bendisch, Jürgen Recent results and aspects for future work on the groundstate threshold pc in +/-J Ising models
12:30 - 12:50	Schneider, Johannes Modern optimization techniques for spin glasses
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30	Hansmann, Ulrich H.E. Ising models and helix-coil transition in biomolecules
14:30 - 15:00	Hauck, Jürgen Ground states from structure maps
15:00 - 15:30	Mika, Klaus A linear programming approach to the high temperature degeneracy of simple Ising systems
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30	Hinrichsen, Haye Robustness of voter-type coarsening
16:30 - 17:00	Waldmann, Oliver Ising interaction of four separate spins in self-assembled supramolecular [2x2] grid structures
17:00 - 17:30	Mühlschlegel, Bernhard Ising model and functional integrals - early applications
17:30	Closing of the scientific program
19:00	Visit of Ernst Ising's birth place