Shmuel Sambursky

Shmuel Sambursky (1933)

Shmuel Sambursky Hebrew שמואל סמבורסקי, also Samuel Sambursky, (born October 30, 1900 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; died May 18, 1990 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli historian of science.

Life

Sambursky studied physics in Königsberg, where he received his doctorate in 1923 (dissertation: On indirect proof in mathematics and physics ). In 1924 he emigrated to Palestine and was a physicist at the Hebrew University from 1928 to 1959 . There he founded the Institute for History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences in 1959, where he was a professor and where he retired in 1970.

He dealt in particular with natural sciences in ancient Greece.

When the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research was founded in the Mandate Government of Palestine, Sambursky became its secretary in 1945. From this emerged in 1949 after the establishment of the state the Israeli Research Council of Israel, whose founder and first director was Sambursky from 1949 to 1956. In this function he was also a member of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission founded in 1952 (headed by Ernst David Bergmann ). In 1957 he returned to teaching at the Hebrew University as Dean of Science, but remained Vice President of the Research Council. For several years he was vice-chairman of the Israeli UNESCO committee.

In 1968 he received the Israel Prize . He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 1977 he became a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and in 1990 he received the Golden Ring of Honor from the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

His brother was the composer Daniel Sambursky .

Fonts

• The physical world of the Greeks , Routledge 1956, Archives
• Physics of the Stoics , Routledge & Paul 1959, 1987
• The physical world of Late Antiquity , London: Routledge & Paul 1962, Princeton UP 2014
• The physical worldview of antiquity , Library of the Old World , Zurich: Artemis 1965
• Editor: The Path of Physics. 2500 years of physical thought from Anaximander to Pauli , Zurich: Artemis 1975 (anthology of 318 texts, 82 of which were first translated into German; English edition: Physical thought from the presocratics to the quantum physicists , London 1974), paperback edition dtv 1978
• Knowledge of nature and worldview. Ten lectures on the history of science , Zurich: Artemis 1977 (lectures at the Eranos conferences 1966 to 1976)
• Religion and Science in Late Antiquity , Meeting Reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 1981
• The Development of Physical Thought from Newton to Einstein , 1988
• Proklos, President of the Platonic Academy, and his successor, the Samaritan Marinos, meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 1985
• Editor with Shlomo Pines : The Concept of Time in Late Neoplatonism. Texts with Translation, Introduction and Notes , Publications of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1987

literature

• Peter Brix, Obituary in Physikalische Blätter , Volume 46, No. 10, 1990, p. 405 [1]
• Yehuda Elkana (Ed.): The interaction between science and philosophy. Symposium to honor Professor Samuel Sambursky on his 70th birthday (Jerusalem 1971), Atlantic Highlands (New Jersey), Humanities Press 1974
• Sambursky, Samuel , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 325
• Sambursky, Samuel , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1972, Volume 14, Col. 766

Web links

• Literature by and about Shmuel Sambursky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Sambursky, Samuel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Sambursky, Samuel , at: Jewish Virtual Library