Background
Wouthuysen was born in Amsterdam, Nederlands in 1916.
Wouthuysen was born in Amsterdam, Nederlands in 1916.
Ghent University; Leiden University. University of California, Berkeley. Institute for Advanced Study.
Wouthuysen gained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, 1948 with a dissertation on self-energy and relativistic covariance in field theory, under his advisor J. Robert Oppenheimer. He collaborated with Leslie Lawrence Foldy to develop the Foldy–Wouthuysen transformation, and with George B. Field to develop the Wouthuysen–Field coupling.