Max Jammer

Max Jammer
Born	13 April 1915(1915-04-13) Berlin, Germany
Died	18 December 2010(2010-12-18) (aged 95) Jerusalem, Israel
Fields	Physics, History of science

Max Jammer, also known as Moshe Jammer (April 13, 1915 – December 18, 2010), was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. He was born in Berlin, Germany.

Jammer studied physics, philosophy and history of science, first at the University of Vienna, and then from 1935 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received a PhD in experimental physics in 1942. After serving in the British Army for the rest of the war, Jammer returned to Hebrew University, where he lectured on the history and philosophy of science, before moving in 1952 to Harvard University. He subsequently became a lecturer there and a close colleague of Albert Einstein at Princeton University. He taught at Harvard, the University of Oklahoma, and Boston University, before in 1956 establishing the Department and becoming Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he later also served as President and Rector. He also co-founded the Institute for Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University, and has been President of the Association for the Advancement for Science in Israel. He was Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, the University of Göttingen, the Institut Henri Poincaré, Columbia University, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., and other universities in the United States and Canada.

Awards

Awards received by Jammer include:

• the 1984 Israel Prize, awarded for history of science^[1];
• the 2003 EMET Prize awarded by the Prime Minister of Israel;
• the 2007 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, awarded by the American Physical Society^[2];
• the Monograph Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and
• a prize for 'an outstanding book on theology and natural sciences' from the Templeton Foundation.

Selected publications

• Concepts of Space: The History of Theories of Space in Physics. Cambridge (Mass): Harvard University Press, 1954; New York: Harper, 1960; 2nd ed: Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1969; 3rd ed: New York: Dover, 1993. ISBN 0-486-27119-6. (Foreword by Albert Einstein)
• Concepts of Force: A Study in the Foundations of Dynamics. Cambridge (Mass): Harvard U.P., 1957 New York: Harper, 1962 New York: Dover, 1999. ISBN 0-486-40689-X
• Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics. Cambridge (Mass): Harvard U.P., 1961 New York: Harper, 1964 New York: Dover, 1997. ISBN 0-486-29998-8
• Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U.P., 2000. ISBN 0-691-01017-X
• The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966; 2nd ed: New York: American Institute of Physics, 1989. ISBN 0-88318-617-9
• The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics in Historical Perspective. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1974. ISBN 0-471-43958-4
• Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-691-10297-X
• Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2006. ISBN 0-8018-8422-5

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References

1. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1984 (in Hebrew)". http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashmag/Tashnab_Tashmag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashmad. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 
2. ^ "2007 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Recipient". http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Max%20Jammer&year=2007. Retrieved 2009-07-09. 

External links

• Max Jammer, 2007 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Recipient, American Physical Society, Prizes, Awards & Fellowships. APS

Persondata
Name	Jammer, Max
Alternative names	Jammer, Moshe; Yammer, Moshe
Short description	Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics
Date of birth	April 13, 1915
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Date of death	December 18, 2010
Place of death	Israel