Hanne lore kohler biography of albert einstein

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The systematic exclusion of Jewish scholars and scientists from teaching and research arguably had graver and longer-lasting consequences than any of the Nazi regime’s other political interventions into research and higher education in Germany.¹ Its quantitative and qualitative dimensions have only come into clear view as a result of in-depth studies, undertaken in the last two decades, that have reliably established that around a fifth of the teaching staff at German universities and other research institutions were dismissed or compelled to resign from 1933 onwards and that 80 percent of these dismissals were racially motivated.² It can be assumed that 1,200 lecturers were affected.³ The unfolding of these developments in the non-university sector is particularly well charted. The dismissal of around ninety “non-Aryans” from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society has been described in detail, drilling down to the level of individual fates,⁴ and the same is true for the approximately thirty committee members of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (Emergency Association of German Science) who were hit by these measures.⁵

The state of knowledge regarding the academies of sciences and humanities is not quite as satisfactory. Because the institutional ties binding these

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Philosophers and Einstein's Relativity: The Early Philosophical Reception of the Relativistic Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 342) [1st ed. 2023] 303136497X, 9783031364976

Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
1 (Mis-)Interpretations of the Theory of Relativity – Considerations on How They Arise and How to Analyze Them
1.1 Motivation for Studying Misinterpretations
1.2 Methodological Background
1.3 What Can We Learn from These Sources?
1.4 The Example of Phenomenalism (Mach School)
1.5 A Clash of Styles of Thought and Interpretational Frames in These Debates
1.6 Interpretational Frames and Perspectivism
1.7 Summary and Considerations About Where to Go from Here
References
2 A Machian Interpretation of the Theory of Relativity? Joseph Petzoldt's Reading of Einstein
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Joseph Petzoldt's Relativistic Positivism
2.3 Before Einstein. The Debate with Mach About the Frames of Reference
2.4 After Einstein. Relativity and Eindeutigkeit
2.5 Conclusions
References
3 The End of Matter? On the Early Reception of Relativity in neo-Kantian Philosophy
3.1 Introduction: Einstein's Relativity, Matter and Field
3.2 Cassirer on Relativity and “Field Physics”
3.3 Cassirer's