Horst Kant

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Horst Kant

Horst Kant (born March 22, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German physicist and science historian .

Life

Horst Kant to 1964 attended the Heinrich Hertz School in Berlin in 1960, after high school then to 1969 to study physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) and completed his graduate degree in physics acquired. This was followed by a study of the theory of science and the history of science at the HUB, where he received his doctorate in 1973 in the field of the history of science .

From 1973 to 1978 he worked as a research assistant and senior assistant at the HUB, among others with Joachim Auth , Vice Rector for Natural Sciences and Technology. In 1978 he moved to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , where he worked until 1991 as a research assistant in the field of history of science at the Institute for Theory, History and Organization of Science under Hubert Laitko .

Together with Dieter Hoffmann, Kant founded a working group on the history of physics in the Physical Society of the GDR in 1978 , which Kant led until reunification in 1990.

After German reunification he worked at the research focus on the history of science and the theory of science of the Förderungsgesellschaft Wissenschaftliche Neuvorhaben mbH Berlin, since 1995 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (department director: Jürgen Renn ). He is primarily concerned with the history of natural sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially social, institutional and personal history, in particular the early history of radioactivity and nuclear energy ( Otto Hahn , Lise Meitner , Werner Heisenberg in World War II ), Soviet physics history , the history of physics in Berlin and the history of physical institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society / Max Planck Society .

Since his retirement in 2011, he has continued to work as a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Horst Kant is married; the couple has a son.

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  1. ↑ for example: Horst Kant: From light therapy to the cyclotron. The Institute for Physics in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg until 1945. Dahlem Archive Discussions, Berlin 2008, pp. 49–92; Albert Einstein and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics . In: Albert Einstein - Engineer of the Universe. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 2005, on the history of the University of Strasbourg in World War II. Preprint, MPI 1997 , also published in French translation.
  2. ↑ List of articles by Horst Kant
personal data
SURNAME Kant, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin