Peter Bergmann
Peter Bergmann · Science & Medicine
Physicist; general relativity and constrained Hamiltonian systems
1915, Berlin, Germany — 2002, Seattle, Washington, United States
Germany · United States
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Peter Bergmann was a German-born American theoretical physicist who worked as an assistant to Albert Einstein at Princeton on unified field theory. He made foundational contributions to general relativity and pioneered the theory of constrained Hamiltonian systems, essential to later efforts at quantizing gravity. Bergmann was Jewish and fled Nazi Germany, becoming a leading gravitation theorist in the United States.
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Physicist; general relativity and constrained Hamiltonian systems
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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