"Ingo Mörth Ingo Mörth (born May 1, 1949 in Grades/ Austria) is an Austrian sociologist. Ingo Mörth studied 1968-1976 business administration and sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) and achieved his PhD in sociology there 1977. He started his scientific career 1973 as Assistant Professor at the Department of General Sociology and Social Philosophy at the JKU, and spent a term as Visiting Professor at the Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut in 1978. After achieving his ""Habilitation"" (= venia docendi) for sociology 1984 at the JKU he taught as Associate Professor (since 1997) and Full"
"Sommer, Wien, 1813–1844. Jacquin, J. F. ""Ueber den Ginkgo"", Carl Gerold, Wien, 1819. Joseph Franz von Jacquin Joseph ""Krystel"" Franz Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Joseph von Jacquin (7 February 1766 in Schemnitz (now Banská Štiavnica) – 26 October 1839 in Vienna) was an Austrian scientist who studied medicine, chemistry, zoology and botany. The son of Nikolaus von Jacquin, he graduated from the University of Vienna as a doctor of medicine in 1788. Between 1788 and 1791 Jacquin was sent on a scientific journey to Germany, France and England by Emperor Francis II. He inherited his father's position as professor"
"researching his thought and propagation of his ideas was established at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In July 2007, the Tel-Aviv–Jaffa municipality decided to name one of the streets in Jaffa after Popper-Lynkeus. Josef Popper-Lynkeus wrote all his works in German. A partial list of his works, including those published after his death, is as follows: Josef Popper-Lynkeus Josef Popper-Lynkeus (21 February 1838 – 22 December 1921) was an Austrian scholar, writer, and inventor. Josef Popper was born in the Jewish quarter in Kolin, Austrian Bohemia (now Kolín, Czech Republic). He was the uncle of Austrian-British"
"have received over a few thousand citations. Jutta Kunz Jutta Kunz (born July, 1955) is a German physicist, specializing in quantum field theory and general relativity. Her work focuses on the gravity in four and higher dimensions: models of gravity, black holes, wormholes, solitons, neutron stars, exotic star, black rings and black branes. Kunz obtained her master's degree (Diplom) in physics from Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany (1978). She did her graduate studies in Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA (1978–79). She obtained her Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude)) (1982). She held the Post-Doc position at the"
"name on his tombstone. These symbols refer to his calculation of the correction (""anomalous"") to the magnetic moment of the electron. List of things named after Julian Schwinger Julian Schwinger Julian Seymour Schwinger (; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a physics professor at several universities. Schwinger is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth"
"many scientific papers on different topics. Jakob Laub Jakob Johann Laub (born as Jakub Laub, 7 February 1884 in Rzeszów – 22 April 1962 in Fribourg) was a physicist from Austria-Hungary, who is best known for his work with Albert Einstein in the early period of special relativity. He was the son of Abraham Laub and Anna Maria Schenborn. Laub, who converted from the Jewish to the Catholic faith and changed his name from ""Jakub"" into ""Jakob Johann"", first visited High School in Rzeszów. Next stations were the University of Vienna, the University of Kraków and finally the University of"
"Markus Fierz Markus Eduard Fierz (20 June 1912 – 20 June 2006) was a Swiss physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work. Fierz's father Hans Eduard Fierz was a chemist with Geigy and later a professor at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich), his mother was Linda Fierz-David. Fierz studied at the Realgymnasium in Zurich. In 1931 he began his studies in Göttingen,"
"Joseph Franz von Jacquin Joseph ""Krystel"" Franz Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Joseph von Jacquin (7 February 1766 in Schemnitz (now Banská Štiavnica) – 26 October 1839 in Vienna) was an Austrian scientist who studied medicine, chemistry, zoology and botany. The son of Nikolaus von Jacquin, he graduated from the University of Vienna as a doctor of medicine in 1788. Between 1788 and 1791 Jacquin was sent on a scientific journey to Germany, France and England by Emperor Francis II. He inherited his father's position as professor of botany and chemistry at the University of Vienna, which he held from"
"""history of medicine"", such as: Karl Binz Karl Binz (1 July 1832 – 11 January 1913) was a German physician and pharmacologist born in Bernkastel. He is known for his investigations on the pharmacological properties and effects of quinine. He studied at the Universities of Würzburg and Bonn, later working at the University of Berlin in the pathological institute of Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) and at the clinic of Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819–1885). In 1868 he became an associate professor at Bonn, and several years later founded its pharmacological institute (1873). In 1885/86 he was university rector. During the Austro-Prussian"
"mountain range near Innsbruck. The main-belt asteroid 10782 Hittmair discovered in 1991 is named after him. Otto-Hittmair-Platz in Innsbruck is named in his honor. Otto Hittmair Otto Hittmair (1924–2003) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, superconductivity and unified field theory. From 1987 to 1991 he was President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Otto Hittmair was born in Innsbruck (Tyrol) on March 16, 1924. He graduated with distinction from the University of Innsbruck in 1942. He worked with Erwin Schrödinger at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in the late 1940s and together with him,"
"written efforts are as follows: Ottokar Lorenz Ottokar Lorenz (17 September 1832 – 13 May 1904) was an Austrian-German historian and genealogist. He was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, Czech Republic) and died in Jena. He was the father of chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929). He studied philology, history and philosophy in Vienna, where his instructors included Hermann Bonitz, Joseph Aschbach and Albert Jäger. From 1861 to 1885, Lorenz was a professor of history at the University of Vienna, being appointed rector in 1880. Afterwards, he was a professor at the University of Jena. He was a founder of modern ""scientific"
"Jutta Kunz Jutta Kunz (born July, 1955) is a German physicist, specializing in quantum field theory and general relativity. Her work focuses on the gravity in four and higher dimensions: models of gravity, black holes, wormholes, solitons, neutron stars, exotic star, black rings and black branes. Kunz obtained her master's degree (Diplom) in physics from Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany (1978). She did her graduate studies in Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA (1978–79). She obtained her Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude)) (1982). She held the Post-Doc position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA"
"one paper on the subject. In 1940 he married Menga Biber; they became acquainted through making music (he played the violin). Their marriage produced two sons. Markus Fierz Markus Eduard Fierz (20 June 1912 – 20 June 2006) was a Swiss physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work. Fierz's father Hans Eduard Fierz was a chemist with Geigy and later a professor at"
"Justinus Kerner Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner (Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 18 September 1786 – Weinsberg, Baden-Württemberg, 21 February 1862) was a German poet, practicing physician, and medical writer. He gave the first detailed description of botulism. He was born at Ludwigsburg in Württemberg. After attending the classical schools of Ludwigsburg and Maulbronn, he was apprenticed in a cloth factory, but, in 1804, owing to the good services of Professor Karl Philipp Conz, was able to enter the University of Tübingen. He studied medicine but also had time for literary pursuits in the company of Ludwig Uhland, Gustav Schwab and others. He"
"Heinz-Jürgen Kluge Heinz-Jürgen Kluge, known as Jürgen Kluge (born 25 April 1941), is a physicist probably best known for the development of ion-storage devices and methods for accurate measurements of nuclear masses. In the early eighties Jürgen Kluge at the University of Mainz considered mass measurements of trapped ions. Gernot Gräff, who worked at the same institute, had developed a time-of-flight technique for the determination of the electron–proton mass ratio from the respective cyclotron-resonance frequencies. During this period the determination of the fundamental properties of the electron was of the highest interest. This included the measurement of the g-factor of"
"University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (German: ""Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen""), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser. It covers the areas of arts/humanities, business, dentistry, economics, law, medicine, science, social sciences, and veterinary medicine. Its university hospital, which has two sites, Giessen and Marburg (the latter of which is the teaching hospital of the University of Marburg), is the only private university hospital in Germany. The University of Giessen"
"Johannes Stark Johannes Stark (, 15 April 1874 – 21 June 1957) was a German physicist and Physics Nobel Prize laureate. He is known for identifying the Stark effect. He was later closely involved with the ""Deutsche Physik"" movement under the Nazi regime. Born in Schickenhof, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Freihung), Stark was educated at the Bayreuth Gymnasium (secondary school) and later in Regensburg. His collegiate education began at the University of Munich, where he studied physics, mathematics, chemistry, and crystallography. His tenure at that college began in 1894; he graduated in 1897, with his doctoral dissertation titled ""Untersuchung über"
"placed in a 90-acre (364,000 m²) park centered around a pond. The campus is accessible by the Linz tram lines ""1"" and ""2"" and the express bus line ""77"". On weekdays, trams travel every 7–8 minutes and a trip to the city center (""Hauptplatz"") takes approximately 16 minutes. The JKU is also located close to Austria's autobahn network at the""Dornach"" exit on the ""A7 Mühlkreisautobahn"" (ca. 1 km or 0.6 miles). In anticipation of extending the campus, an additional autobahn exit, ""Auhof"", is currently in the construction stages and is expected to better facilitate traffic, allowing a more direct route"
"Julian Schwinger Julian Seymour Schwinger (; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a physics professor at several universities. Schwinger is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, responsible for much of modern quantum field theory, including a variational approach, and the equations of motion for quantum fields. He developed the first electroweak model, and"
"Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (, ; ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as ' or ', was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation (stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger equation) and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics. Schrödinger proposed an original interpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function. In addition, he was the author of many works in various fields of physics: statistical"
"University of Jena Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU; , shortened form ""Uni Jena"") is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte,"
"Jakob Laub Jakob Johann Laub (born as Jakub Laub, 7 February 1884 in Rzeszów – 22 April 1962 in Fribourg) was a physicist from Austria-Hungary, who is best known for his work with Albert Einstein in the early period of special relativity. He was the son of Abraham Laub and Anna Maria Schenborn. Laub, who converted from the Jewish to the Catholic faith and changed his name from ""Jakub"" into ""Jakob Johann"", first visited High School in Rzeszów. Next stations were the University of Vienna, the University of Kraków and finally the University of Göttingen, where he studied mathematics under"
"Jakob Kunz Jakob Kunz (November 3, 1874 – July 18, 1938) was an American physicist who pioneered the development and application of photoelectric cells. Born in Brittnau, Switzerland, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1897 and his Ph.D in 1902 from the Eidgenossisches Polytechnikum in Zurich, and active in the Bahá'í Faith from 1921. Kunz arrived at the University of Illinois in 1909 as a theoretical physicists. He taught most of the graduate courses and supervised half of the Ph. Ds up to 1929. Larazus notes that “He was clearly the intellectual leader of the department.” One of his students"
"Richard Kuhn Richard Johann Kuhn (; 3 December 1900 – 1 August 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 ""for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"". Kuhn was born in Vienna, Austria, where he attended grammar school and high school. His interest in chemistry surfaced early; however he had many interests and decided late to study chemistry. Between 1910 and 1918 he was a schoolmate of Wolfgang Pauli, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1945. Beginning in 1918, Kuhn attended lectures at the University of Vienna in chemistry. He"
"Josef Popper-Lynkeus Josef Popper-Lynkeus (21 February 1838 – 22 December 1921) was an Austrian scholar, writer, and inventor. Josef Popper was born in the Jewish quarter in Kolin, Austrian Bohemia (now Kolín, Czech Republic). He was the uncle of Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper. Josef was born to an impoverished Jewish family of tradespeople who placed a high value on education. After a highly religious early education he was sent to the German Polytechnikum Prague. Four years later he the started at the Imperial Polytechnikum, Vienna to study Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy. However, despite doing well, the Concordat of 1855 enabled"
"Ludwig Boltzmann Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (; February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion). Boltzmann coined the word ""ergodic"" while he was working on a problem in statistical mechanics. Boltzmann was born in Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire. His father, Ludwig Georg Boltzmann, was a revenue official. His grandfather, who had moved to Vienna from"
"are also open to the public. Oriental Collections / Papyrus Collection Archaeological Collections Natural Sciences and Natural History Mineralogy & Geology History of Sciences Medicine University of Jena Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU; , shortened form ""Uni Jena"") is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor"
"Ernst K. Zinner Ernst Kunibert Zinner (30 January 1937 – 30 July 2015) was an Austrian astrophysicist, known for his pioneering work in the analysis of stardust in the laboratory. He long had a position in the United States at the Laboratory for Space Physics (later part of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he had earned his doctorate. He came to the United States in the 1960s for graduate work. In addition, Zinner regularly taught at European universities, and other American institutions. Zinner was born on 30 January 1937 at"
"a Heterodox or as a Keynesian economist. Kurt W. Rothschild Kurt Wilhelm Rothschild (1914–2010) was a well known Austrian born economist. He lectured at the University of Glasgow (1938–1947), worked as a researcher at Austrian Economic Research Institute (1947–1966) and was one founding fathers of the University of Linz, working there from 1966 until 1985. His work in economics was wide ranging running from contributions to microeconomic and macroeconomic theory and history of economic thought to questions of both economic methodology and economic policy. Through his career advocated pluralism in economics and a critical approach to what came to be"
"after Johann Radon (see External link below). Radon is known for a number of lasting contributions, including: Johann Radon Johann Karl August Radon (16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations (in 1910, at the University of Vienna). Radon was born in Tetschen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Děčín, Czech Republic. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna in 1910. He spent the winter semester 1910/11 at the University of Göttingen, then he was an assistant at the German Technical University in Brno, and from 1912 to"
"X-rays of his German colleague Wilhelm Röntgen in 1896. Lecher's nephew, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973. Ernst Lecher Ernst Lecher (1 June 1856 – 19 July 1926) was an Austrian physicist who, from 1909, was head of the ""First Institute of Physics"" in Vienna. He is remembered for developing an apparatus— ""Lecher lines""—to measure the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves. He gave his name to the Ernst-Lecher-Institut, a radar research establishment set up in the 1940s in Reichenau, south of Vienna, which is now a part of the German research institute"
"Heinrich Burkhardt Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (15 October 1861 – 2 November 1914) was a German mathematician. He famously was one of the two examiners of Albert Einstein's PhD thesis ""Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen"". Of Einstein's thesis he stated: ""The mode of treatment demonstrates fundamental mastery of the relevant mathematical methods"" and ""What I checked, I found to be correct without exception."" Burkhardt was born in Schweinfurt. Starting from 1879 he studied under Karl Weierstrass, Alexander von Brill, and Hermann Amandus Schwarz in Munich (at university and technical university), Berlin and Göttingen. He attained a doctorate in 1886"
"as an opera director. Austria was the cradle of numerous scientists with international reputation. Among them are Ludwig Boltzmann, Ernst Mach, Victor Franz Hess and Christian Doppler, prominent scientists in the 19th century. In the 20th century, contributions by Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger and Wolfgang Pauli to nuclear research and quantum mechanics were key to these areas' development during the 1920s and 1930s. A present-day quantum physicist is Anton Zeilinger, noted as the first scientist to demonstrate quantum teleportation. In addition to physicists, Austria was the birthplace of two of the most noteworthy philosophers of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein"