Ernst Mach
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Ernst Mach, an Austrian physicist, was born on February 18, 1838 in Moravia in the Austrian Empire. He was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church, but interestingly, later in his life, became an atheist. Until the age of 14, Ernst was educated by his parents at home. He then went to a gymnasium, or a high school, in Kromeriz. He was educated there for three years until he went to the University of Vienna in 1855 at the age of 17. At the University, he studied both physics and medical physiology. There, his doctoral teacher was Andreas von Ettingshausen. Mach received his doctorate in physics in the year 1860. Earlier his work was composed of working on the Doppler Effect in optics. After receiving his doctorate, Mach went on to teach mathematics as a professor at the University of Graz. He was a doctoral advisor to Heinrich Gomperz, another austrian physicist. Although he was teaching mathematics, his interests were still with physics. So he continued to work in sensory perception and psychophysics. He was intrigued by psychophysics after looking at Gustav...
Frederick “Fritz” Pollard, the first African American to ever play in the Rose Bowl and the first African American to ever coach an NFL team, changed the history of football and America while enduring different racial criticism. Pollard faced many difficulties throughout his childhood and adulthood. Pollard was not like the typical “black star” of the 1890-1910 time period. Pollard was raised in a nice home, instead of the “ghetto”, and was able to acquire higher education than that of the average African-American child of his time period. Pollard was racially criticized throughout his amateur and professional life. One incident being the time Pollard got into an argument with a child on whether or not he was a football player, “There I was,
Adolf Hitler, born in 1889, is an Austrian born man who is known for his instigation and participation in the Nazi Political movement, or genocide, known as the Holocaust. Throughout his later life, Hitler spent the majority of his time organizing discriminatory laws that prevented Jewish citizens’ basic rights and ultimately their demise. However, before he advanced such laws and politics, he served as the Head of State, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, until he became the Fuhrer of Germany’s Third Reich which began in 1933 and ended in 1945 (Jewish Virtual Library). His actions were fueled by an unrelenting and strict hate for the Jewish community, better known as anti-Semitism, much like the vast majority of Eastern countries. Both
The conditions in Germany when Hitler came into power were that the Wiemar Republic was weak, they had a democracy and after president Heindenburg died the democracy was even weaker. There was hardly any money, before the Great Depression began. Aldof Hitler promised a better life for everyone in Germany, and with his persuasive speech managed to get what he wanted, power. The treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for the First World War. The Weimar politicians did not seem to have an end to the ongoing crisis so they gave Hitler a spot in politics, his speech soon enough brought him up the hierarchy and lead to his success. The support for the Nazi party was rising every day before the Communists, the Great Depression did much of Hitler’s
In terms of artists and their influences, the case of Nietzsche and Wagner has been the focal point of discussion between many great academic minds of the last century. The controversy surrounding the relationship has led many to postulate that the eventual break between the two men may have contributed to the untimely death of Wagner in 1882, and Nietzsche's eight-year writing spurt from 1883 - 1888.
Vironia Qaryaqos Raymundo Quezada CCS 119 10 December, 2017 El Machismo All men have wanted to feel and look like a machismo at some point in their life. The topic of machismo is not addressed often and does not contain enough resources and articles about it. It is what many men want to be and what many women want to see in a man. Women feel attracted to men when they feel like he has the ability to protect them from any kind of harm even when they are not generally in any type of danger.
John Gresham Machen was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 28th 1881 to parents Arthur Webster and Mary Hones Gresham. From an early age Machen was taught lessons of the bible and of Jesus. His family attended a Presbyterian church called Franklyn Street Presbyterian. (Wikipedia) Machen's father was a lawyer and therefore Machen was considered to be brought up in a rather privileged home. He attendee a private college where he was educated in classics such a Greek and Latin.
make him a bad man, in fact Oskar went behind the Nazi’s back and had
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
Einstein’s education was unconventional for a person who was to become a success. Early on, he was failing a large number of his courses; and he transferred from a German school at age fifteen to a Swiss school, so that he could avoid compulsive military service in the German armed forces. By the age of sixteen, he officially became a school dropout. His grade school principle made the statement to his parents, “it didn’t matter what profession the boy prepared for because he wo...
Miller, A. (1975) Albert Einstein and Max Wertheimer: a Gestalt psychologist's view of the genesis of special relativity theory. History of science; an Annual Review of Literature, Research and Teaching 13 (2): 75–103.
His pursuit of knowledge became even more important when he entered the university of Ingolstadt. He "read with ardour" (35) and soon become "so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory" (35). He was a proud product of the Enlightenment...
Segre, Kaplan, Schiff and Teller. Great Men of Physics: The Humanistic Element in Scientific Work. Los Angeles, CA: Tinnon-Brown, Inc., Book Publishers, 1969.
Sigmund Freud was influential in the study of psychology. Freud was born in Freiberg, a town in Austria, on May 6, 1856. When he was only four, Freud and his family moved to Vienna, where he would live out the duration of his life. He entered into the University of Vienna in 1873, a medical school where he studied physiology for six years under Ernst Brucke, who was a German scientist and director of the Physiology Laboratory. In 1881 he received his medical degree, but did not pursue a career in physiology. He opted to take a job at Vienna General Hospital as a doctor so he could have a secure job and income for his wife, Martha Bernays, who he married in 1882 and had six children with. Later, he opened his own, private practice to treat psychological disorders, which provided him with much of his research he used later on with his new theories and techniques. Freud spent time in Paris with Jean Charcot, a French neurologist who experimented with hypnosis as a means to treat hysteria and other uncommon mental disorders, but did not find his methods effective. Freud then began working with Josef Breuer, who, with Freud, experimented with the notion that “many neuroses (phobias, hysterical paralysis and pains, some forms of paranoia, and so forth) had their origins in deeply t...
Hitler sees most of the problems facing Germany as coming from an outside source. He starts his speech with angry reference to the Treaty of Versailles, “Since that day of treachery, the Almighty has withheld his blessing from our people” (Hitler). It is clear that the primary cause of the problems facing Germany, according to Hitler, is the Treaty of Versailles. He goes on to say, “The insane conception of victors and vanquished destroyed the confidence existing between nations, and, at the same time, the industry of the entire world” (Hitler). He sees the treaty as a destabilizing force which destroyed the former balance of power.
In 1740 entered the University of Konigsberg as a student of theology and was a student of Martin Knutzen, who introduced him to the rationalist philosophy of Leibniz and Wolff, and he likewise imbibed interest in natural science, in particular the mechanical Newton.