Ernst Mach and the development of physics : Conference papers. Prague, 14.-16.9.1988

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Title (eng)

Ernst Mach and the development of physics

Conference papers. Prague, 14.-16.9.1988

Editor

Václav Prosser

Description (eng)

Abstract: The 150th anniversary of the birth of professor of experimental physics of the Prague university and of a native of Chrlice near Brno, Ernst Mach (18.2.1838 - 19.2.1916), who founded and developed an active scientific school of experimental physics in Prague and influenced a whole generation of Czech physicists, stimulated the efforts of Czechoslovakian scientific institutions to organize an international scientific conference which would evaluate Mach’s place in the evolution of local as well as worldwide physics of his time, as well as his physical ideas of the future development of physics. About seventy participants, 17 of them from abroad, took part in the conference, held in the historical building of the Prague Carolinum, the public having free access to the lectures. The intention of the organizers was to analyse historically Mach’s work in physics from the point of view of the development of physics in the last third of the 19th century, from the point of view of Mach’s influence on the development of Czech physics and, last but not least, from the point of view of the development of the problems he himself outlined and of the research projects which have been initiated in current physics. Prag: Univerzita Karlova, 1991 ISBN 80-7066-347-2

Keywords (deu)

Mach, ErnstPhysikGeschichte 1838-1988

Subject (eng)

ÖFOS 2012 -- 103010 -- History of physics

Type (eng)

book

Language

[eng]

Persistent identifier

https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2068527

AC number

AC00413611