Wolfgang Yourgrau

Wolfgang H. J. Yourgrau was a physicist and philosopher of science best known for his scholarship on variational principles in physics and as founding editor, with Henry Margenau, of the journal Foundations of Physics. He earned a physics doctorate in Berlin, was an outspoken anti-fascist, and later became professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Denver. He was an assimilated Jew who fled Nazi Germany.