Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin - Castagnetti, Giuseppe

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Résumé :
Chapter 1. Einstein Comes to Berlin.- Chapter 2. The Foundation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics.- Chapter 3. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Einstein's Directorship 1917-1922.- Chapter 4. Einstein's Directorship: An Evaluation.- Appendix....

Biographie:
Hubert Goenner is professor emeritus at the Institut f?r Theoretische Physik, Universit?t G?ttingen. He studied mathematics and physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg (1962), receiving his doctorate there (after one year at Yeshiva University under Arthur Komar) in 1966 under Helmut H?nl and K. Westpfahl on contributions to the general-relativistic motion problem of fast, interacting, and self-interacting pole-dipole particles. As a post-doctoral researcher, he was an assistant to Peter Havas at Temple University in Philadelphia, and from 1969 to M. Kohler at the University of G?ttingen, where he habilitated in 1973 (local isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds and Einstein's theory of gravitation). From 1975, he was a lecturer in G?ttingen and from 1980 professor. He retired in 2002, but continued to be active in research. He has been a guest researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciencein Berlin.