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Hermann Minkowski was born in the town of Aleksota, the Suwałki Governorate, the Kingdom of Poland, since 1864 part of the Russian Empire, to Lewin Boruch Minkowski, a merchant who subsidized the building of the choral synagogue in Kovno, [10] [11] [12] and Rachel Taubmann, both of Jewish descent. [13]
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Oskar Minkowski (/ m ɪ ŋ ˈ k ɔː f s k i,-ˈ k ɒ f-/; [1] German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski] 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He was the brother of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski and father of ...
1909 - Death of Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864) 1949 - Birth of Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist; 1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation; 1996 - Death of Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski (1894–2005), soldier in World War I and in the 1920–21 Polish-Soviet War; at his death, he was the oldest man in the United Kingdom (111 years old) [14] Emil August Fieldorf, general, last deputy commander-in-chief of the Home Army (1944–1945)
Here Wassmann draws heavily on the work of the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) and his oft-quoted passage: The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical.
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) found that the theory of special relativity could be best understood as a four-dimensional space, since known as the Minkowski spacetime.. In physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) (/ m ɪ ŋ ˈ k ɔː f s k i,-ˈ k ɒ f-/ [1]) is the main mathematical description of spacetime in the absence of gravitation.