Article ID: CBB000642046

Physicists and Physics in Munich (2002)

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We give a tour of Munich and some outlying sites that focuses on the lives and work of the most prominent physicists who lived in the city, Count Rumford, Joseph Fraunhofer, Georg Simon Ohm, Max Planck, Ludwig Boltzmann, Albert Einstein, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Wilhelm Wien, Arnold Sommerfeld, Max von Laue, and Werner Heisenberg. We close with a self-guided tour that describes how to reach these sites in Munich. Keywords Key words. Munich, University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, Count Rumford, Joseph Fraunhofer, Georg Simon Ohm, Max Planck, Ludwig Boltzmann, Albert Einstein, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Wilhelm Wien, Arnold Sommerfeld, Max von Laue, Werner Heisenberg.

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Description A tour of Munich focusing on the most prominent physicists who lived there.


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Authors & Contributors
Schröder, Wilfried
Louis J. Buchholtz
William R. Shanahan
Brown, Brandon R.
Wolff, Stefan L.
Thorndike, Alan S.
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Science and society
Collected correspondence
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Germany
Munich (Germany)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Switzerland
Italy
Vienna (Austria)
Institutions
Munich. Universität
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
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