Name Max Jammer | Role Physicist | |
 | ||
Born 13 April 1915
Berlin, Germany ( 1915-04-13 ) Died December 18, 2010, Jerusalem, Israel Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Vienna Awards EMET Prize in Humanities and Judaism Fields Physics, History of science Books Einstein and Religion, Concepts of Space: The Histo, Concepts of Force: A Study in t, Concepts of Mass in Classical, Concepts of Mass in Contemp | ||
Max Jammer (born Moshe Jammer, [ˈjamɐ]; April 13, 1915 – December 18, 2010), was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. He was born in Berlin, Germany.
Contents
Biography
Jammer studied physics, philosophy and history of science, first at the University of Vienna, and then from 1935 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received a PhD in experimental physics in 1942. After serving in the British Army for the rest of the war, Jammer returned to Hebrew University, where he lectured on the history and philosophy of science, before moving in 1952 to Harvard University. He subsequently became a lecturer there and a close colleague of Albert Einstein at Princeton University. He taught at Harvard, the University of Oklahoma, and Boston University, before in 1956 establishing the Department and becoming Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he later also served as President and Rector. He also co-founded the Institute for Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University, and has been President of the Association for the Advancement for Science in Israel. He was Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, the University of Göttingen, the Institut Henri Poincaré, Columbia University, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., and other universities in the United States and Canada.
Awards
Awards received by Jammer include: