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Privatdozent Photo Edition #14
Although the so-called father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) didn’t assume directorship of the Institute for Advanced Study until…
Aug 25, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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May 2022
Privatdozent Photo Edition #13
Five Nobel Laureates (1931). Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg were close friends in the 1920s and early 30s. The latter had studied under Bohr in…
May 4, 2022
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April 2022
Privatdozent Photo Edition #12
Terence Tao (1975-) is just about as close to a modern-day David Hilbert (1862-1943) as anyone might imagine. As of 2022, he has authored or co-authored…
Apr 24, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #11
Einstein stayed in Pasadena, California as a visiting professor at Caltech for three winter terms, in 1931, ‘32 and ‘33. According to the Caltech…
Apr 2, 2022
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March 2022
Privatdozent Photo Edition #10
Following the death of Kurt Gödel’s close friends John von Neumann and Albert Einstein, the mathematician gravitated towards another close friend in…
Mar 22, 2022
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #9
Einstein had three children with his first wife Mileva Marić. Their names were Lieserl, Hans Albert and Eduard. Like his father, Hans Albert obtained a…
Mar 9, 2022
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #8
Following Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)’s publications of the first- and second incompleteness theorems (1931) and later work on Cantor’s continuum hypothesis…
Mar 1, 2022
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February 2022
Privatdozent Photo Edition #7
Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was only 22 years old when World War II broke out, but still managed to get hired to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67)’s…
Feb 16, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #6
Alan Turing (1912-54) is known for many things, but his love of America is not one of them. This despite the fact that he spent considerable amounts of…
Feb 7, 2022
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #6
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January 2022
Privatdozent Photo Edition #5
Although Sylvia Nasar’s renowned biographical book* about mathematician John F. Nash Jr. (1928-2015) was unauthorized, the man himself enjoyed the…
Jan 28, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #4
At the core of what made Princeton the center of the mathematical universe post-WW2 were arguably four European men: Albert Einstein, John von Neumann…
Jan 19, 2022
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #4
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #3
When physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) visited the University of Göttingen in 1926-27, his visit overlapped the stays of, among others, John von…
Jan 13, 2022
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #3
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