Hubert Goenner
Hubert Goenner (born October 29, 1936 in Tübingen ) is a German theoretical physicist and science historian.
biography
After studying mathematics and physics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (state examination in 1962), he was an assistant there and received his doctorate (after a year at Yeshiva University with Arthur Komar) in 1966 with Helmut Hönl and K. Westpfahl on contributions to general relativistic motion problem of fast, interacting and self-interacting pole-dipole particles . As a post-doc he was at Temple University in Philadelphia with Peter Havas and from 1969 assistant to M. Kohler at the University of Göttingen , where he completed his habilitation in 1973 (subject: Local isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds and Einstein's theory of gravitation ). From 1975 he was a lecturer in Göttingen and from 1980 professor. He retired there in 2002, but is still scientifically active. Among other things, he was visiting scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Work areas
As a physicist, Goenner dealt among other things with extensions of the general theory of relativity (GTR) such as scalar tensor theories, cosmology, relativistic thermodynamics, exact solutions and symmetries of GTR.
As a science historian, Goenner u. a. with the history of the ART and the attempts to expand the ART, as well as the history of physics at the University of Göttingen. He was also involved in the development of the Göttingen Nobel Prize Wonders exhibition (2002).
Fonts
- Introduction to Cosmology. Spectrum, Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg et al. 1994, ISBN 3-86025-332-8 .
- Mach's Principle and Theories of Gravitation. In: Julian Barbour , Herbert Pfister (eds.) Mach's Principle. From Newton's Bucket to Quantum Gravity (= Einstein Studies. Vol. 6). Birkhäuser, Boston MA et al. 1995, ISBN 3-7643-3823-7 , pp. 442-457.
- Introduction to special and general relativity. Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-86025-333-6 .
- Einstein's theories of relativity. Space, time, mass, gravitation (= Beck series 2069). CH Beck 1997, ISBN 3-406-41869-4 . 6th edition 2016, ISBN 3-406-45669-5 .
- with Jürgen Renn , Tilman Sauer , Jim Ritter (Eds.): The expanding worlds of General Relativity (= Einstein Studies. Vol. 7). Birkhäuser, Boston MA et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7643-4060-6 .
- On the History of Unified Field Theories. In: Living Reviews in Relativity . 7, 2004.
- Special relativity and the classical field theory. Elsevier, Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag, Munich et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8274-1434-2 .
- Einstein in Berlin. 1914-1933. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52731-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goenner, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theoretical physicist and science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |