Bruno Thüring

Bruno Jakob Thüring (September 7, 1905, Warmensteinach, Germany – May 6, 1989 in Karlsruhe, Germany) was a German physicist and astronomer.

Thüring studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1928, under Alexander Wilkens and Arnold Sommerfeld. [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=62133 Thüring] - 1928 Dissertation title: "Darstellung der Bewegung eines Planeten der Jupitergruppe durch eine absolute Störungstheorie". Advisor 1: Alexander Wilkens. Advisor 2: Arnold Sommerfeld.] Wilkens was professor of astronomy and director of the Munich Observatory, which was part of the University. From 1928 to 1933, he was an assistant at the Munich Observatory. From 1934 to 1935, he was an assistant to Heinrich Vogt at the University of Heidelberg. Thüring completed his Habilitation there in 1935, whereupon he became an Observator at the Munich Observatory. In 1937, he became a lecturer (Dozent) at the University of Munich. From 1940 to 1945, he held the chair for astronomy at the University of Vienna and was director of its observatory. After 1945, he lived as a private scholar in Karlsruhe. [ [http://www.friedensblitz.de/sterne/krieg/Thuering.html Thüring] – Biographical Note Friedenblitz] [ [http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/philarchiv/bestaende/Thuering.htm Thüring] – Biographical Note Konstanz] [ [http://litten.de/fulltext/cara.htm Wilkens1] and [http://litten.de/fulltext/gross.htm Wilkens2] – Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Munich Observatory.] [ [http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/users/mdarr/history.html Vogt] – LSW University of Heidelberg] [ [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/franz.kerschbaum/Publications/thuering_wien_vs5.pdf Thüring] – University of Vienna]

During the reign of Adolf Hitler, Thüring was a proponent of Deutsche Physik, as were the two Noble Prize winning physicist Johannes Stark and Philipp Lenard; "Deutsche Physik", was anti-Semitic and had a bias against theoretical physics, especially including quantum mechanics. He was also a student of the philosophy of Hugo Dingler. [ [http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/spag/ign/events/pdf/kerschb05.pdf Thüring’s Polemic] ] [ Clark, 1971, pp. 525-526.]

Books

* Bruno Thüring "Albert Einsteins Umsturzversuch der Physik" (Georg Lüttke Verlag, 1941)

* Bruno Thüring "Einführung in die Methoden der Programmierung kaufmännischer und wissenschaftlicher Probleme für elektronische Rechenanlagen. T. 1. Die Logik der Programmierung" (Göller, 1957)

* Bruno Thüring "Einführung in die Methoden der Programmierung kaufmännischer und wissenschaftlicher Probleme für elektronische Rechenanlagen. T. 2. Automatische Programmierung dargest. an d. Univac Fac-Tronic" (Göller, 1958)

* Bruno Thüring "Die Gravitation und die philosophischen Grundlagen der Physik" (Duncker u. Humblot GmbH, 1967)
* Bruno "Thüring Einführung in die Protophysik der Welle. Kymometrie" (Duncker & Humblot GmbH, 1978)
* Bruno "Thüring Methodische Kosmologie. Alternativen zur Expansion des Weltalls und zum Urknall" (Haag u. Herchen, 1985)

References

* Clark, Ronald W. "Einstein: The Life and Times" (World, 1971)

Notes

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