Theoretical and mathematical Physicist who did research on quantum physics. He had a great deal to do with the development of matrix mechanics.
He was an assistant to both Richard Courant and
He was once in the Nazi party, which isolated him within a German physics community which had many of it's members fleeing Germany to escape Nazi persecution.
He has an ancestor, Pascual Jorda, who was a Spanish cavalry officer and settled in Hanover.
Like Albert Einstein, he is known for his work with quantum physics.
