Karl von Meyenn

Karl von Meyenn (* 1937 in Potsdam ) is a German physicist and physics historian.

Von Meyenn studied physics in Santiago de Chile and received his doctorate in 1971 from the University of Freiburg . He then taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile before joining Armin Hermann in 1975 at the Chair for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart . From 1985 to 1990 he was Professor of the History of Science at the Universidad Autónoma in Barcelona . In 1991 he went to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich . Since 2000 he has been at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Ulm University .

From 1979 to 2005 he was the editor of the extensive scientific correspondence from Wolfgang Pauli . In 2011 his two-volume selection edition of Erwin Schrödinger's correspondence was published . He also edited essays by Niels Bohr , books by Max Born and essays by Albert Einstein .

Fonts

• (as ed.): Quantum Mechanics and Weimar Republic , Braunschweig, Wiesbaden: Vieweg 1994, ISBN 3-528-08938-5 .
• Between Scylla and Charybdis - the emergence of quantum mechanics between number theory and correspondence, Physikalische Blätter , Vol. 55, December 2000, p. 49
• Pauli's way to the exclusion principle, part 1,2, Physikalische Blätter vol. 36, 1980, p. 293, vol. 37, 1981, p. 13
• with Engelbert Schücking : Wolfgang Pauli, Physics Today, February 2001
• Article Wolfgang Pauli in the New German Biography
• Basic physical research during the Second World War, in R. Seising, Menso Folkerts , Ulf Hashagen (editor): Form, number, order. Studies on the history of science and technology, Ivo Schneider on his 65th birthday, Munich 2004, pp. 617–652
• Editor: Die große Physiker, 2 volumes, CH Beck 1999 (Vol. 1 From Aristoteles to Kelvin, Vol. 2 From Maxwell to Gell-Mann)
• Editor: A discovery of extraordinary importance. Schrödinger's correspondence on wave mechanics and the cat paradox , Springer 2011
• Editor: Pleasure in Knowledge. Triumph and crisis of mechanics. A reader on the history of physics. Piper Verlag 1990
• Editor with Roman Sexl , Karl Stolzenburg: Niels Bohr 1885–1962. The Copenhagen Spirit in Physics, Vieweg 1985, 2001
• Editor of Wolfgang Pauli: Physics and Epistemology, Vieweg 1984
• with Armin Hermann and other editors of the Scientific Correspondence of Wolfgang Pauli, Springer Verlag, from 1979
• Editor with Charles P. Enz : Wolfgang Pauli - the conscience of physics, Vieweg 1988
• Editor with commentary: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity - the basic works, Vieweg 1990

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl von Meyenn in the catalog of the German National Library