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Also Known As Claus Hugo Hermann Weyl
Born November 9, 1885 • Germany
Died December 8, 1955 (aged 70) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Raum, Zeit, Materie” • “The Concept of a Riemann Surface”
Subjects Of Study relativity

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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Fritz Wolfgang London
American physicist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
Russian mathematical physicist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
Pascual Jordan
German physicist
David Bohm
American physicist
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
John Vincent Atanasoff
American mathematician and physicist
Walter Kohn
American physicist
David Wineland, 2012.
David Wineland
American physicist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician

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