Max Jammer
Max Jammer · Science & Medicine
Physicist and historian of physics; conceptual development of quantum mechanics
1915, Berlin, Germany — 2010, Jerusalem, Israel
Israel (Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan) · Germany · United States
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Max Jammer (born Moshe Jammer) was a physicist and historian of physics whose conceptual histories — 'Concepts of Space,' 'The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics' and studies of mass and force — became standard references. He fled Nazi Germany, studied and taught at the Hebrew University, and founded the physics department at Bar-Ilan University, later serving as its president. He was Jewish.
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Physicist and historian of physics; conceptual development of quantum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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