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Also Known As Claus Hugo Hermann Weyl
Born November 9, 1885 • Germany
Died December 8, 1955 (aged 70) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Raum, Zeit, Materie” • “The Concept of a Riemann Surface”
Subjects Of Study relativity

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Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
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Fritz Wolfgang London
American physicist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
Russian mathematical physicist
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
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Pascual Jordan
German physicist
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David Bohm
American physicist
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
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Walter Kohn
American physicist
David Wineland, 2012.
David Wineland
American physicist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
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Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician
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Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch Aepinus
German physicist

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