University of Göttingen in the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 5 people and 5 moments here, from 1923 to 1931. The most recorded lives are Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi and David Hilbert.
Notable people
David Hilbert
in 1930
1 moment here
German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…
Enrico Fermi
in 1923
1 moment here
Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…
Niels Bohr
in 1925
1 moment here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Satyendra Nath Bose
in 1926
1 moment here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1931
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Moments
- 1923 Study with Max Born Enrico Fermi
- 1925 Return meeting at Göttingen Niels Bohr
- 1926 Met Born and Hückel in Göttingen Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1930 Opening of the Mathematical Institute David Hilbert
- 1931 Summer research at Göttingen Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar