He was born in Hamburg on 22 February 1857. His father Dr. jur. Gustav Ferdinand Hertz was Jewish, who had converted to Christianity. He was an advocate in Hamburg, then Oberlandsgerichtsrat, and from 1887 Senator and head of the administration of justice. His mother Anna Elisabeth, née Pfefferkorn, was the daughter of the Frankfurt doctor, Dr. Pfefferkorn. As a child he was interested in practical things and equipped his own workshop. At age of 15, he entered the Johanneum Gymnasium (figure 1). he passed his Abitur (GCE A-levels), the best in his class. He showed an early interest in the natural sciences, and a practical skill in building physics equipment in the family workshop. He was also an enthusiastic linguist, learning Arabic and Sanskrit. Three years later, he left schood and went to Frankfurt to gain practical experience as the beginning of a career in engineering. In 1876 He went to Dresden Ploytechnic to work. He entered Munich University to be a scientist rather than an engineer during a year of compulsory military service from 1876 to 1877. In addition, he began studies in mathematics, but switched to practical physics.
He moved to Berlin in 1878 and he met Hermann Helmholtz (1821 - 1894) who immediately recognized his talents and encouraged him greatly. He gained his PhD in 1880 and reminded at Berlin to work with Helmholtz as his assistant. In 1883, Hertz moved to Kiel to lecture in physics. He began his studies of the recent electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell.
Maxwell's theory had been based on unusual mechanical ideas about the luminiferous ether. and had not been
universally accepted. In 1884, Hertz rederived Maxwell's equations by
a new method, casting them in modern form without assumption of ether. However, the lack of a proper laboratory there caused him to take up the position of Professor of Physics at Karlsruhe and stayed for four years in 1885. In 1886 Hertz married Elizabeth Doll, daughter of a Karlsruhe professor; they had two daughters named Johanna and Mathilde. He discovered radio waves in 1888. In the same year, he began to suffer from toothache. In 1889 Hertz was appointed professor of physics at the University of Bonn and he continued his research on the discharge of electricity in rarefied gases. During the summer of 1892, he suffered from a bone disease and died of blood poisoning on 1 January 1894 at the early age of 36.
1921 moved to Berlin, married, edited a journal called Scripta Universitatis atque Bibliothecae Hierosolymitarum, the mathematical-physical section was prepared by Albert Einstein. This journal played a big role in developing the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
Himmler graduated in July 1919. He majored in agriculture at the Technical University in Munich. This is where he combined a German-nationalist student group and began to read intensely in the racist-nationalist literature popular on the essential right of the interwar German political field. By the time he received his university degree in August 1922, Himmler was a nationalist and a political activist. Forced to take a job in a manure-processing factory near Munich, Himmler made contact with t...
"We could describe (Heinrich) Schliemann's excavations on the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it," Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. "Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of civilization, the history of art" (qtd. in Duchêne 87). Heinrich Schliemann's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. A poor, uneducated, and motherless boy rises through his hard work and parsimonious lifestyle to the heights of wealth (Burg 1,2). He travels the world and learns its languages ("Heinrich Schliemann"), takes a beautiful Greek bride, and together they unearth the treasures of Troy and the citadel of Agamemnon, thereby fulfilling the dream he has chased since childhood (Calder 18,19; Burg 8). Indeed, by presenting his life in romantic autobiographies as a series of adventures, starring Heinrich Schliemann as the epic hero (Duchêne 14), he ensured his status as a lasting folk hero and perennial bestseller (Calder 19).
In 1895, Albert took an entrance exam to get into the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and failed. He studied at a Swiss school in Aurau and graduated a year later. In 1896 he returned to the Institute and graduated in 1900 as a secondary teacher of mathematics and physics. During this time he meets Mileva Maric and falls in love. He tried unsucessfully to obtain an Institute job, but failed. He eventually obtained a job at the Swiss Patent Office. The position at the Patent Office gave Albert the time to devote his thought to physics and he began publishing scientific papers.
Mileva "was born in Hungary in 1875, with a hip deformity and a good mind" (Storey 31). Although women did not usually pursue science degrees, she had won top marks in her class for math and physics, and was sent on to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich the same year as Einstein (Grenier B05). She was one of five in their class; Mileva and Albert both specialized in theoretical physics. Mileva attended classes and took notes for both of them. They studied for every class together. When they were apart, they wrote co...
Two years later, Wernher enrolled at the Berlin Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering two years later. Not long after, Wernher was offered a grant to research liquid-fueled rocket engines. And in 1934, Wernher von Braun received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Berlin.
future in Germany and decided to set up his first factory near Berlin. He started out by
knowledged by his peers), and in 1970 he won the nobel prize in physics for his work
While in Germany he learned to speak full German and was very observant. After the war was over Rudolf moved back to Paris, when suddenly his sister died with a heart failure. Rudolf’s family decided it would be best if he stayed with his aunt and uncle longer, so rudolf moved back. Rudolf said his father was a whole different person and wasn 't he wasn 't a pleasure to be around. While in Germany, Rudolf found he really enjoyed arts and spent a lot of time in art museums, but it was only shortly after that when he found out he was interested in engineering. He was only 14 years old when he declared he wanted to be an engineer, and wrote his parents a letter to tell them the news. Rudolf then went on studying in the magnetic field, to follow his dreams.
He had wanted to be a research scientist but anti-Semitism forced him to choose a medical career instead and he worked in Vienna as a doctor, specialising in neurological disorders (disorders of the nervous system). He constantly revised and modified his theories right up until his death but much of his psychoanalytic theory was produced between 1900 and 1930.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, to Hermann and Pauline Einstein, in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany (“Albert Einstein”). Despite being Jewish, Einstein, his parents, and his sister Maja did not observe Jewish practices, and Albert actually attended a Catholic elementary school (“Albert Einstein”). Einstein soon developed a strong love of math and science, even teaching himself Euclidean geometry at the young age of twelve (“Albert Einstein”). In his teenage years, he attended Luitpold Gymnasium, where he frequently clashed with authorities and resented the school regimen, even writing in his later years, “that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning” (“Albert Einstein”). Around this time, he wrote his first scientific paper, “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields” (“Albert Einstein”). In 1895, he dropped out of high school in order to reunite with his family, which had since then relocated to Pavia and left him behind to finish his education (“Albert Einstein”).
Albert Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879, in Wurttemburg, Germany. He frequently moved from town to town with his family throughout his young life, and always showed an interest in science. As an adult he attended Swiss Federal Polytechnic School and earned his degree as a teacher of physics and mathematics. He later obtained his doctorate’s degree in
However, Einstein later introduced a theory which would account for the unexpected results of the Michelson-Morley experiment and in fact contradict the ether theory all together. The Special Theory of Relativity would then continue to revolutionize the way we thought about space and time.
He studied electrical engineering at Graz Politechnic in Graz, Austria. He then moved to Budapest to work for the American Telephone Company in 1881. He then moved to Yugoslavia, where he became chief engineer to that country's first telephone system. Later he moved to Paris to work for the Continental Edison Company. While there, he developed devices that used rotating magnetic fields, for which he later received patents.
It wasn't until 1905, that the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment were explained. In Einstein’s most famous scientific paper, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, Einstein clarified that the idea of ether is unnecessary if the speed of light were expected to be an absolute const...