Jürgen Teichmann

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Jürgen Teichmann (born June 7, 1941 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia ) is a German science historian , physicist , physics didactician and museum educator . From 1970 to 2006 he worked at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, most recently as managing museum director.

Life

Teichmann studied physics from 1961 to 1967 in Münster and Munich and from 1968 to 1972 the history of natural sciences, modern history and the sociology of knowledge. In 1972 he received his doctorate in history of physics in Munich . In 1987 he completed his habilitation. Since 1992 he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Munich .

It deals with the history of physics and astronomy and their applications in didactics.

In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg .

Fonts

Books:

  • Change of worldview. Astronomy, physics and measurement technology in cultural history , Deutsches Museum 1980, 2nd edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, Rowohlt TB 1985 (in the series: Kulturgeschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Ed. Deutsches Museum), Vieweg / Teubner 4th edition 1999.
  • For the development of the basic concepts of electricity, in particular of electricity until 1820 , Arbor Scientiarum, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg 1974 (dissertation)
  • with Ernst Rödl, Adolf Wissner: The tamed lightning bolt: illustrated history of electrical discoveries and inventions , Oldenbourg, Stalling 1972
  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Physics, Technology and Aesthetics , Deutsches Museum 1975 (special print from Humanism and Technology )
  • Alessandro Volta and the basic terms capacity, voltage, amount of charge , Deutsches Museum 1978 (special reprint from physics and didactics)
  • as editor: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Aphorism between physics and poetry , Vieweg / Teubner 1983
  • with Fritz Fraunberger: The experiment in physics: Selected examples from history , Vieweg / Teubner 1984
  • On the history of solid state physics . Color center research until 1940, Boethius 17, Steiner Verlag 1988 (habilitation)
  • with Joan Warnow-Blewett (Ed.): Guide to the sources for history of solid state physics , New York: Center for Physics 1992
  • with W. Schreier and M. Segre: Experiments that made history , Munich: Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1995 (new edition Deutsches Museum 2008)
  • with Ernst Ball and Johann Wagmüller: Simple physical experiments on past and present , Munich: Deutsches Museum, Kerschensteiner Kolleg, 7th edition 1999
  • From amber to electron. A short history of electricity , Munich: Deutsches Museum, Education Department, 3rd edition 1998
  • with Franz Berr: About forces, waves and ice-cold air; Workbook for the Physics Department , Munich: Deutsches Museum, Education Department, 5th edition 1997
  • with Gerhard Hartl, Karl Märker and Gudrun Wolfschmidt: Planets, Stars, Islands of the World. Astronomy in the Deutsches Museum , Stuttgart: Franckh-Kosmos (as Astronomy Guide), new edition, Munich, Deutsches Museum 1999
  • The infinite realm of the stars: the fascinating world of astronomy , Würzburg: Arena Verlag 2000
  • With Einstein in the elevator: Physics simply explained , Würzburg: Arena Verlag 2008
  • The secret code of the stars: a new sky landscape and the birth of astrophysics , Deutsches Museum 2016

Essays:

  • Point defects and ionic crystals , in: Lillian Hoddeson, Ernest Braun, Jürgen Teichmann, Spencer Weart: Out of the Crystal Maze - Chapters from the History of Solid State Physics, Oxford University Press, 1992
  • Volta and the Quantitative Conceptualization of Electricity. From Electrical Capacity to the Preconception of Ohm's Law , Nuova Voltiana, Volume 3, 2001, pp. 53-80
  • Utile et dulce - electrical show experiments in the 18th century , in: G. Wolfschmidt (Ed.): Popularisierung der Naturwissenschaften, Berlin 2002, pp. 239-253
  • with M. Eckert, St. Wolff: Physicists and Physics in Munich , Physics in Perspective, Volume 4, 2002, pp. 333-359.
  • with A. Noschka-Roos, T. Weber: The museum as public space - aspiration and reality. In: W. Füssl, H. Trischler (Hrsg.): History of the German Museum. 2003
  • The German Museum. A plea for the myth of object and experiment , in: Social history of technology. Ulrich Troitzsch on his 60th birthday; ed. by Günter Bayerl and Wolfhard Weber, Münster / Munich / Berlin: Waxmann 1998 (= Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment, Volume 7), pp. 199–208
  • Studying Galileo at Secondary School: A Reconstruction of his "Jumping-Hill" Experiment and the Process of Discovery , Science & Education, Volume 8, 1999, pp. 121-136.
  • Historical worldviews , astronomy and space travel in class, 6/1998, pp. 13–16
  • The experiment in Galileo's manuscripts - science in action and myth , in: Michael Segre, Eberhard Knobloch (Hrsg.): Der ungebändigte Galilei, Steiner Verlag 2001
  • Galileo and the Experiment , Praxis der Naturwissenschaften / Physik, Volume 56, 2007, pp. 5-9
  • Chapter Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Georg Simon Ohm, Robert Wichard Pohl, in: K. von Meyenn: Die große Physiker, 2 volumes, Munich, Beck, 1997
  • A new landscape of the invisible - dark lines in the spectrum of the stars . In: Yearbook for European Science Culture 6 (2011), published 2012/2013, pp. 273–325.
  • with Arthur Stinner: From William Hyde Wollaston to Alexander von Humboldt- Star Spectra and Celestial Landscape , Annals of Science, February 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's Scholars Calendar 2009
personal data
SURNAME Teichmann, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian, physicist, physics didactic and museum educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg