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The Physical Tourist: Peripatetic Highlights in Bern (2005)

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This tour of significant scientific sites in Bern uses the local legacy of its most illustrious scientists, Albert Einstein (1879--1955) and Fritz Houtermans (1903--1966), as its guiding thread through the old town and the university district. Key words. Albert Einstein - Fritz Houtermans - Aimé Forster - Paul Gruner - Heinrich Greinacher - University of Bern - Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Bern - Swiss science - meteorology - metrology - relativity theory

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Authors & Contributors
Sauer, Tilman
Renn, Jürgen
Janssen, Michel
Polak, Paweł
Sussman, Nathaniel F.
ten Hagen, Sjang L.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Synthese
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Science and Education
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
CTT
Yale University Press
W. W. Norton & Co.
Stämpfli
Springer
Humanity Books
Concepts
Physics
Relativity, general
Philosophy of science
Relativity, special
Space
Relativity
People
Einstein, Albert
Mach, Ernst
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Dyson, Frank Watson
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
Bern (Switzerland)
Lisbon (Portugal)
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
London (England)
Institutions
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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