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

Schreier, Wolfgang (Author)
Schlote, Karl-Heinz (Author)

Physics in Perspective
Volume: 10
Pages: 224--243

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Physics 19th century 20th century Leipzig (Germany) Hertz, Gustav Debye, Peter Joseph William Heisenberg, Werner Universität Leipzig

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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