Michael Eckert

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Michael Eckert (* 1949 ) is a German physicist and science historian at the Deutsches Museum .

Eckert studied physics at the Technical University of Munich with a diploma in 1976 and received his doctorate in theoretical physics at the University of Bayreuth in 1979 ( models for the visual process of invertebrates ). From 1981 to 1988 he worked at the Deutsches Museum, from 1989 to 1995 lecturer at the Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag, from 1995 to 2000 research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and since 2001 at the Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science at the Deutsches Museum.

He published a biography of Arnold Sommerfeld (and organized an exhibition about him at the Deutsches Museum), wrote a book about the Sommerfeld school of atomic physics and the history of fluid mechanics, especially the school of Ludwig Prandtl , and among other things dealt with history solid state physics and nuclear energy policy in Germany.

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  • Arnold Sommerfeld - atomic physicist and cultural messenger 1868-1951. A biography. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2013 (= treatises and reports of the Deutsches Museum, new series, vol. 29)
    • English translation: Arnold Sommerfeld: Science, Life and Turbulent Times 1868-1951 , Springer 2013
  • Bohr-Sommerfeld's atomic theory: Sommerfeld's expansion of Bohr's atomic model 1915/16. Classical Texts of Science, Springer Verlag 2013
  • Heinrich Hertz. Hamburg: Ellert & Richter Verlag, 2010.
  • Ludwig Prandtl - flow researcher and science manager . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-49917-7 .
  • The Dawn of Fluid Dynamics. A Discipline between Science and Engineering. Berlin / Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2006.
  • Editor with Karl Märker: Arnold Sommerfeld: Scientific Correspondence, Volume 1: 1892-1918, Volume 2: 1919-1951. Berlin, Diepholz, Munich: Deutsches Museum, GNT-Verlag, 2000 and 2004.
  • The nuclear physicists. A history of theoretical physics using the example of the Sommerfeld School. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1993.
  • with Maria Osietzki: Science for Power and Market. Munich: CH Beck, 1989.
  • with Helmut Schubert: Crystals, electrons, transistors: From the learned room to industrial research , Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1986.
  • with Willibald Pricha, Helmut Schubert, Gisela Tor: Privy Councilor Sommerfeld - Theoretical Physicist: A documentation from his estate. Deutsches Museum, Munich, 1984.
  • The birth of modern atomic theory . Physics in Our Time , Volume 44, 2013, Issue 4.
  • Sommerfeld and the beginnings of atomic theory . Physics in Our Time , Volume 26, 1995, pp. 21-28.
  • with Eberhard Bodenschatz: A life for turbulence . Spectrum of Science , October 2013, pp. 44–52 (Prandtl).
  • with Eberhard Bodenschatz: Prandtl and the Göttingen school. In: Peter A. Davidson, Yukio Kaneda, Keith Moffatt, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (Eds.): A Voyage Through Turbulence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 40-100.
  • with Lillian Hoddeson , Gordon Baym : The development of the quantum mechanical electron theory of metals. Reviews of Modern Physics , Volume 59, 1987, pp. 287-327 (and in Hoddeson et al., Out of the crystal maze, Chapter 2, pp. 88-181)
  • with Helmut Schubert, Gisela Torkar: The Roots of Solid State Physics Before Quantum Mechanics. In: L. Hoddeson, E. Braun, S. Weart and J. Teichmann (Eds.): Out of the Crystal Maze. Chapters from the History of Solid State Physics. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford, 1992, pp. 3-87.
  • The German Physical Society and "Aryan Physics" . In: Mark Walker and Dieter Hoffmann (Eds.): The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists between Autonomy and Accommodation. Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 96-125.
  • The turbulence problem. A persistent riddle in historical perspective , Springer 2019
  • Physics in the palace gardens. The pleasure garden as the setting for new technology. Nymphenburg Palace, Versailles, Sanssouci. Munich: Allitera 2020

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SURNAME Eckert, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1949