Daniela Wuensch

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Daniela Anca Wuensch (* 1960 ) is a German physicist and science historian .

life and work

Wuensch studied physics , mathematics , German literature and philosophy and received his doctorate “summa cum laude” in 2000 at the University of Stuttgart in the history of science with Armin Hermann . In 2001 she received the “Wilhelm Zimmermann Prize” from the University of Stuttgart for her doctoral thesis. The topic of her dissertation became a book about Theodor Kaluza , the first comprehensive biography about the author of the Kaluza-Klein theories, which are fundamental in string theory . From 2001 to 2003 she edited David Hilbert's physics lectures at the University of Göttingen as part of the edition of his works. She taught at the Institute for the History of Science there and at the Hamburg Institute. Today she works as an independent science historian.

Hilbert or Einstein priority

She became known for her contribution to the priority dispute (mainly conducted by third parties) about the discovery of the field equations of general relativity by David Hilbert and Albert Einstein at the end of 1915. These had been published by both Hilbert and Einstein. Both were in correspondence beforehand, but most of it has not survived. Einstein's work first appeared (December 2, 1915) but was submitted on November 25, after Hilbert's work. Previously, the renowned science historians and Einstein specialists Jürgen Renn , Leo Corry and John Stachel had published their discovery of corrections of the flag of Hilbert's essay (November 20, 1915) in Science in 1997, which should show that Hilbert did not explicitly use the field equations in his original draft and only added it after taking note of Einstein's work, indirectly raising an allegation of plagiarism. That the field equations were contained in “implicit form” in Hilbert's work has never been disputed. Wuensch, on the other hand, pointed out missing pages in the flag corrections (as did Friedwardt Winterberg ), which Corry, Renn and Stachel had not done in their science article. She also made it likely, as she details in her book, that these pages were removed much later and not by Hilbert himself. This raised an allegation of forgery, but Wuensch did not address the question of the author in her book. Hilbert himself had sent the proof corrections to Felix Klein with the request that they be returned at a later date, and they were transferred to the manuscript department of the Göttingen University Library via Klein's estate. Wuensch thinks it is likely that the missing field equations were explicitly on these pages. Independently of this, various physicists have indicated that for a mathematician of Hilbert's caliber it was only a small step from the implicit to the explicit form of the field equations. Wuensch's theses led to a scientific dispute in 2005, which was also reflected in the features section.

Fonts

  • The inventor of the 5th dimension. Theodor Kaluza - life and work. Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938016-03-9 .
  • Departure into higher dimensions. For the 150th anniversary of Theodor Kaluza (1885–1954). In: Physics in Our Time. Vol. 41, Issue 6, 2010, pp. 287-291.
  • "Two real guys" - news about the discovery of the gravitational equations of general relativity by David Hilbert and Albert Einstein . Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2005, 2nd edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-938016-09-1 , extended 3rd edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-938016-17-6 .
  • The way of science in the labyrinth of cultures. Seven central tasks in the history of science. Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938016-10-7 .
  • Dimensions of the universe. The history of higher dimensional unified theories from ancient times to modern physics. Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-938016-12-1 .
  • The unification of natural forces. David Hilbert on his 150th birthday. In: Physics in Our Time. Vol. 43, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 91-95.
  • Daniela Wuensch, Klaus P. Sommer (ed.): The ancient Egyptian time measurement / Ludwig Borchardt . New ed. by Daniela Wuensch & Klaus P. Sommer. (With an introduction by Daniela Wuensch “ What the ancient Egyptians knew about clocks and time measurement .”) Reprint of the edition from 1920, Termessos, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-938016-14-5 .
  • The last Nobel Prize in Physics for a woman? Maria Goeppert Mayer : A goddess conquers atomic nuclei. Nobel Prize 1963. For the 50th anniversary. Termessos Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-938016-15-2 .

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References

  1. ^ Initial irritations from both Hilbert and Einstein were quickly settled by both. Before the aforementioned work by Renn, Stachel and Corry, Hilbert was considered to be the one who wrote down the field equations first and independently of Einstein, but Einstein's primacy in the physical field was never an issue either
  2. ↑ Einstein "The field equations of gravitation", meeting reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, November 25, 1915, pp. 844–847
  3. ↑ "Basics of Physics. 1. Communication “, News from the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften Göttingen, 1916, p. 395, dated November 20, 1915
  4. ^ Corry, Renn, Stachel "Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein-Priority Dispute", Science, Vol. 278, 1997, p. 1270
  5. ↑ “Two real guys”, Termessos 2005, see also Klaus Sommer, Physics in our time, Vol. 36, 2005, Issue 5, pp. 230–235, “Who discovered the general theory of relativity? Priority dispute between Hilbert and Einstein "
  6. ↑ Winterberg, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Vol. 59a, 2004, p. 719
  7. ↑ Hilbert gave the correct Lagrangian in the received part of the flag corrections, from whose variation the field equations follow
  8. ↑ Logunov, Mestvirishvili, Petrov "How where the Hilbert-Einstein equations discovered?", Physics Uspekhi Vol. 47, 2004, pp. 607–621, online here [1] , Todorov "Einstein and Hilbert - the creation of General Relativity" , [2] , F. Winterberg 2006 in response to a review by David Rowe
  9. ^ Reply from Renn z. B. Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, November 20, 2005
  10. ↑ for example André Behr "The dispute about the formula", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 6, 2005, Thomas Bührke "Das zerschnittee Blatt", Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 14, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Wish, Daniela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wuensch, Daniela Anca (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and science historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1960