“The differences among German and French mathematics are not any more essential than the differences between German and French machine guns.”
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Pascual Jordan
Ernst Pascual Jordan was a German theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed canonical anticommutation relations for fermions. He introduced Jordan algebras in an effort to formalize quantum field theory; the algebras have since found numerou…
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science · German physicist and politician (1902–1980) · physicist · politician · university teacher · non-fiction writer · mathematician · also Pascual Jordan, Ernest Pascual Jordan, Jordan
Born 18 October 1902 · Died 31 July 1980 · Q61761
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2026· 2 entries
“give a short coherent account of what I did during these black 12 years”
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2019 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 7,481 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Machine learning: Trends, perspectives, and prospects” in Science — cited 8,529 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science — cited 10,211 times.
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1980· 1 entry
Died 1980-07-31.
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1966· 1 entry
Jordan published his 182-page work Die Expansion der Erde
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1957· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1957–1961).
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Jordan supported the arming of the Bundeswehr with tactical nuclear weapons by the Adenauer government, while the Göttingen Eighteen (a group of German physicists which included Born and Heisenberg) issued the Göttinger
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Secured election to the Bundestag standing with the conservative Christian Democratic Union
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1955· 1 entry
Won Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal (1955).
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1953· 1 entry
After a successful application for relief (including a salary subsidy) under Article 131, he recovered his full status as a tenured professor at the University of Hamburg, where he stayed until he became emeritus in 1971
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1942· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1942).
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1939· 1 entry
And worked as a weather analyst at the Peenemünde rocket center, for a while
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award (1937).
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1933· 2 entries
But did not follow the Deutsche Physik movement, which at the time rejected quantum physics developed by Albert Einstein and other Jewish physicists
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Jordan joined the Nazi party, like Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, and, moreover, joined an SA unit
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1926· 1 entry
Niels Bohr offered to pay to treat it, and on the advice of Wilhelm Lenz, Jordan sought treatment at Alfred Adler's clinic in Vienna
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen (1922–1925).
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1923· 1 entry
Was then at the very zenith of its powers in mathematics and the physical sciences, such as under the guidance of mathematician David Hilbert and the physicist Arnold Sommerfeld
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1922· 1 entry
Studied at Leibniz University Hannover (1921–1922).
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1921· 1 entry
Where he studied zoology, mathematics, and physics
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-10-18.
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1815· 2 entries
The family settled in Hannover after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and at some stage changed their name from Jorda to Jordan.
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And at some stage changed their name from Jorda to Jordan
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