In a form of crystals known as Weyl semimetals, a type of topological material
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.
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science · German mathematician (1885–1955) · mathematician · physicist · philosopher · university teacher · also Hermann Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Weyl
Born 9 November 1885 · Died 8 December 1955 · Q71029
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2012· 1 entry
“Using Weyl Symmetry to make Graphene: a real lab for Fundamental Physics”
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2009· 1 entry
“Weyl’s Predicative Classical Mathematics as a Logic-Enriched Type Theory”
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2004· 1 entry
“Philosophy as a Cultural Resource and Medium of Reflection for Hermann Weyl”
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1955· 1 entry
Died 1955-12-08.
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Arnold-Reymond prize (1954).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1952).
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1948).
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1936).
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1930· 1 entry
To become Hilbert's successor at the University of Göttingen, leaving when the Nazis assumed power in 1933, particularly as his wife was Jewish
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1929· 1 entry
Weyl proposed an equation, known as the Weyl equation, for use in a replacement to the Dirac equation
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1928· 2 entries
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1929, a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1935, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1940
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At Bologna and an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1936 at Oslo
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1927· 1 entry
Awarded Lobachevsky Prize (1927).
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1921· 1 entry
Weyl met Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist who at the time was a professor at the University of Zurich
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1918· 1 entry
Introduced the notion of gauge, and gave the first example of what is now known as a gauge theory
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1913· 2 entries
Weyl published Die Idee der Riemannschen Fläche (The Concept of a Riemann Surface), which gave a unified treatment of Riemann surfaces
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For Zurich to take the chair of mathematics at ETH Zurich, where he was a colleague of Albert Einstein, who was working out the details of the theory of general relativity
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1912· 1 entry
Suggested a new proof, based on variational principles
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1911· 1 entry
Weyl published Über die asymptotische Verteilung der Eigenwerte (On the asymptotic distribution of eigenvalues) in which he proved that the eigenvalues of the Laplacian in a compact domain are distributed according to th
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1908· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen (1904–1908).
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1906· 1 entry
Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1905–1906).
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-11-09.
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