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Minkowski studied in Königsberg and taught in Bonn (1887–1894), Königsberg (1894–1896) and Zürich (1896–1902), and finally in Göttingen from 1902 until his death in 1909. He married Auguste Adler in 1897 with whom he had two daughters; the electrical engineer and inventor Reinhold Rudenberg was his son-in-law.
Hermann Minkowski. 1893 – Birth of Nazi politician and ideologist Alfred Rosenberg; 1909 – Death of mathematician Hermann Minkowski; 1919 – The Spartacist uprising is suppressed; 1959 – Birth of Blixa Bargeld, singer of Einstürzende Neubauten
Minkowski (crater) Minkowski addition; Minkowski content; Minkowski distance; Minkowski functional; Minkowski problem; Minkowski problem for polytopes; Minkowski sausage; Minkowski space; Minkowski–Bouligand dimension; Minkowski–Hlawka theorem; Minkowski–Steiner formula; Minkowski's bound; Minkowski's question-mark function; Minkowski's ...
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
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Hermann Minkowski Poincaré's attempt of a four-dimensional reformulation of the new mechanics was not continued by himself, [ 54 ] so it was Hermann Minkowski (1907), who worked out the consequences of that notion (other contributions were made by Roberto Marcolongo (1906) and Richard Hargreaves (1908) [ 88 ] ).
1908 – Hermann Minkowski: Minkowski space; 1911 – Ernest Rutherford: Discovery of the atomic nucleus (Rutherford model) 1911 – Kamerlingh Onnes: Superconductivity; 1912 - Victor Francis Hess: Cosmic rays; 1913 – Niels Bohr: Bohr model of the atom; 1915 – Albert Einstein: General relativity
The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.