Wolfgang Yourgrau papers 1942-1979

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Wolfgang Yourgrau papers 1942-1979

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Wolfgang Yourgrau was born on November 14, 1908, near Berlin, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1932. During the second world war, Yourgrau edited an anti-fascist weekly, . Subsequently, he held professorships in Israel and South Africa before coming to the United States in 1959. Yourgrau came to the University of Denver in 1963 and remained at the school until he retired in 1978. Prolific as a scholar and lecturer, both in America and abroad, he earned the prestigious Einstein Medal in 1970 for his work in the field of general relativity. At the time of his death, July 18, 1979, Yourgrau was editor of , an international periodical he started with Henry Margenau. The Orient Foundations of Physics

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Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997

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Dr. Henry Margenau, Yale professor and eminent philosopher of science, was born in Germany in 1901 and came to the United States in 1922. He earned his A.B. from Midland Lutheran College and a M.Sc. from the University of Nebraska. He attended Yale University on a graduate fellowship in 1927, and received his Ph.D. in 1929. He remained at Yale as an instructor and later as a professor. In 1950 Margenau was made the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy, the first such joint ...

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Wolfgang H.J. Yourgrau (1908-1979) served as Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Denver, Denver, Colo. He was associated with the University from 1963-1978. He also served as Chair of the Philosophy Dept. and was a member of the History Dept. He earned his Ph. D. in physics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in 1932. During the World War II, Yourgrau edited an anti-fascist German-language weekly, The Orient. He earned the Einstein Medal in 1970 for his work...

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