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We give a tour of Munich and some outlying sites that focuses on the lives and work of the most prominent physicists who lived in the city, Count Rumford, Joseph Fraunhofer, Georg Simon Ohm, Max Planck, Ludwig Boltzmann, Albert Einstein, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Wilhelm Wien, Arnold Sommerfeld, Max von Laue, and Werner Heisenberg. We close with a self-guided tour that describes how to reach these sites in Munich.
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- Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, D-80306 Munich, Germany, e-mail: ha.programme@deutsches-museum.de, , , , , , DE
Jürgen Teichmann, Michael Eckert & Stefan Wolff
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ID="*"Jürgen Teichmann studied physics, received his Ph. D. degree with a thesis on the history of the concepts of electrical charge and current, and wrote his habilitation thesis on the history of solid-state physics (color centers); he is director at the Deutsches Museum and professor of the history of physics at the University of Munich. Michael Eckert studied physics and received his Ph. D. degree in theoretical physics; since 1980 he has carried out several projects in the history of 19th and 20th-century physics at the Deutsches Museum, and he is editor (together with Karl Märker) of Arnold Sommerfeld's scientific correspondence. Stefan Wolff studied physics and received his Ph. D. degree with a thesis on the history of the kinetic theory of gases; he has carried out several projects in the history of 19th and 20th-century physics, and he is Lecturer in the history of physics at the University of Munich.
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Teichmann, J., Eckert, M. & Wolff, S. Physicists and Physics in Munich.Phys. perspect. 4, 333–359 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-002-8372-6
- Issue Date: August 2002
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-002-8372-6
- Key words. Munich, University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, Count Rumford, Joseph Fraunhofer, Georg Simon Ohm, Max Planck, Ludwig Boltzmann, Albert Einstein, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Wilhelm Wien, Arnold Sommerfeld, Max von Laue, Werner Heisenberg.