Max Jammer

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Max Jammer
Max Jammer, 2003
Born
משה ימר

(1915-04-13)13 April 1915
Died18 December 2010(2010-12-18) (aged 95)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
AwardsIsrael Prize (1984)
EMET Prize (2003)
Abraham Pais Prize (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, History of science

Max Jammer (מקס ימר; born Moshe Jammer,[1] German: [ˈjamɐ]; April 13, 1915 – December 18, 2010), was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He was Rector and Acting President at Bar-Ilan University from 1967 to 1977.[2]

Biography

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. He served in the British Army for the rest of the war.

Jammer then 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.

He was Rector and Acting President (succeeding

the Catholic University of America
in Washington, D. C., and other universities in the United States and Canada.

He is the father of Rabbi Michael Yammer

Yeshivat Sha’alvim
.

Awards

Awards received by Jammer include:

Selected publications

See also

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