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Science & Medicine

Arthur Korn

Who

Arthur Korn · Science & Medicine

What

Continuum mechanics

When

1870, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) — 1945, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Arthur Korn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics

How & why

Korn was a German physicist and mathematician who pioneered telephotography — the transmission of photographs over wire and radio — a forerunner of the fax machine, and also contributed to continuum mechanics and potential theory. As a Jew, he fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to the United States. He was of Jewish origin.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology

Contributions & Sources

Continuum mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology