Max Wien: Physics at German Universities [Late November 1934]Recent speeches and writings have pointed out time and again that it is the primary responsibility of physics to bring relief in the current serious economic crisis. Undoubtedly, the great economic upKlaus Hentschel...
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There are several varieties of university-level schools. The classical universities, in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt, provide a broad general education and students usually attend them for up to six years. However, in recent years there have been changes to the curriculum allowing a uni...
Undoubtedly, the great economic upswing at the turn of the century was based above all upon progress in physics; and German universities had played a major part in these advances. I only call to mind spectral analysis, X-rays, and electric waves....
Realizing that improvements in optical instruments depended on advances in optical theory, in 1866 he engaged as a research worker Ernst Abbe, a physics and mathematics lecturer (later professor) at the University of Jena, who soon became Zeiss’s partner. They engaged Otto Schott, a chemist, ...
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher and patriot, one of the great transcendental idealists. Fichte was the son of a ribbon weaver. Educated at the Pforta school (1774–80) and at the universities of Jena (1780) and of Leipzig (1781–84), he s