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Pierre Duhem
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem was a French theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity. Duhem was also a prolific historian of science, noted especially for his pioneering work on the European Middle Ages. As a philosopher of science, Duhem is credited with the "Duhem–Quine thesis" on the indeterminacy of experimental criteri…
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science · French physicist (1861–1916) · philosopher · physicist · university teacher · chemist · mathematician · philosopher of science · historian · thermodynamicist · also Pierre Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem, Pierre Maurice Duhem, Duhem
Born 10 June 1861 · Died 14 September 1916 · Q314172
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1916· 2 entries
Died 1916-09-14.
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At the relatively early age of 55, after suffering from an acute attack of angina while staying in a home that had belonged to his maternal grandfather in the small commune of Cabrespine, near the city of Carcassonne, in
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1915· 1 entry
“overthrow[s] all the doctrines in which one has spoken of space, of time, of movement, all the theories of mechanics and of physics”
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1914· 1 entry
Duhem commented that Einstein's relativity theory "has turned physics into a real chaos where logic loses its way and common-sense runs away frightened"
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1911· 2 entries
“Letter to Fr. Bulliot, on Science and Religion”
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“The teaching that claims to establish the irreducible antagonism between the scientific mind and the Christian mind is the most colossal, boldest lie that has ever attempted to dupe the human race.”
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1888· 1 entry
Duhem finally received his doctorate with a new thesis on the theory of magnetization dynamics
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1886· 1 entry
Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1882–1886).
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1882· 1 entry
Studied at Collège Stanislas de Paris (1872–1882).
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1861· 1 entry
Born 1861-06-10.
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