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Ernst Mach
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honor. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of spac…
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science · Austrian physicist, philosopher and university educator (1838–1916) · physicist · philosopher · pedagogue · professor · photographer · politician · university teacher · fluid dynamicist · also Ernst Mach, Ernst Mach Jr, Ernst Waldfried Joseph Wenzl Mach, Mach
Born 18 February 1838 · Died 19 February 1916 · Q93996
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Published “2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice” in European Heart Journal — cited 5,914 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: <i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>” in European Heart Journal — cited 7,904 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Various Ernst Mach links, compiled by Greg C Elvers
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2004· 1 entry
“Philosophy of biology versus philosphy of physics”
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1930· 1 entry
Wrote, "it is justified to consider Mach as the precursor of the general theory of relativity" and "the whole direction of thought of this theory conforms with Mach's"
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1916· 1 entry
Died 1916-02-19.
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1913· 1 entry
Moved to his son's home in Vaterstetten, near Munich, where he continued writing and corresponding until his death in 1916, one day after his 78th birthday
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1908· 2 entries
Lenin wrote a philosophical work, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, in which he criticized Machism and the views of "Russian Machists"
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“Populär-wissenschafliche Vorlesungen”
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1905· 2 entries
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1905).
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“Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung”
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1901· 2 entries
Mach accepted an appointment to the Austrian House of Lords but declined a nobility because he thought it inappropriate for a scientist to accept such a thing
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Career landmark: Member of the House of Lords (Austria) (1901).
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1900· 1 entry
Mach became godfather of physicist Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, who was also named after him
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1898· 1 entry
Mach survived a paralytic stroke, and in 1901, he retired from the University of Vienna and was appointed to the upper chamber of the Austrian Parliament
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1886· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1886).
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1879· 1 entry
Career landmark: Rector of Charles University (1879–1880).
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1873· 1 entry
Independently of each other, Mach and the physiologist and physician Josef Breuer discovered how the sense of balance (i
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1871· 1 entry
Was elected a member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences
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1870· 1 entry
By the physiologist Friedrich Goltz, but Goltz did not discover how the balance-sensing apparatus functions
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1867· 1 entry
Took the chair of experimental physics at Charles-Ferdinand University, where he stayed for 28 years before returning to Vienna
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1864· 1 entry
Mach became professor of mathematics at the University of Graz after having declined a chair in surgery at the University of Salzburg
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1860· 1 entry
Studied at University of Vienna (1855–1860).
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1855· 2 entries
Became a student at the University of Vienna, where he studied physics and for one semester medical physiology, receiving a doctorate in physics in 1860 under Andreas von Ettingshausen, with his thesis Über elektrisch
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Studied at Piaristické gymnázium v Kroměříži (1852–1855).
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1848· 2 entries
Born to a liberal family, Mach lamented that a "very reactionary-clerical" period followed the 1848 revolutions, prompting him to plan to emigrate to America, although he never did.
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Studied at convent Gymnasium in Seitenstetten (1847–1848).
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1838· 1 entry
Born 1838-02-18.
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