Article ID: CBB000932035

The Physical Tourist. Physics in Leipzig: An Amble through the Centuries (2008)

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We provide a tour of Leipzig, one of the cultural centers of Germany that contributed a significant chapter in the history of physics. In the nineteenth century the city and University of Leipzig were home to one of the oldest physical institutes in Germany, and in the late 1920s the arrival of Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), Peter Debye (1884-1966), and Friedrich Hund (1896-1997) at the University's Physical Institute led to a flowering of physics in Leipzig that lasted until the outbreak of World War II. After the war a rebirth occurred under the leadership of Waldemar Ilberg (1901-1967), Gustav Hertz (1887-1975), and others.

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Authors & Contributors
Beyer, Lothar
Hon, Giora
Schlote, Karl-Heinz
Auger, Pierre
Bacciagaluppi, Guido
Ball, Philip
Journals
Annalen der Physik
Foundations of Chemistry
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Physics in Perspective
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
European Physical Journal H
Publishers
Passage-Verl.
Aksant Academic Publishers
Bollati Boringhieri
Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag
Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Physics
Chemistry
Quantum mechanics
Science education and teaching
Universities and colleges
Science and society
People
Debye, Peter Joseph William
Heisenberg, Werner
Hertz, Gustav
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
Franck, James
Planck, Max
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Leipzig (Germany)
Germany
Institutions
Universität Leipzig
Universität Göttingen
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
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