Moritz Schlick
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Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.
Moritz Schlick around 1930
Inscription on a staircase of the main building of the University of Vienna where the murder took place
Max Planck
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy q
Moritz Schlick
…especially impressed him. He studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Lausanne, and, ultimately, the University of Berlin under Max Planck. Schlick explained this choice in his autobiography by saying that, despite his love for philosophy, he believed that only mathematical physics could…
Planck in 1938
Plaque at the Humboldt University of Berlin: "Max Planck, discoverer of the elementary quantum of action h, taught in this building from 1889 to 1928."
Planck in 1918, the year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum theory.
From left to right: Nernst, Einstein, Planck, Millikan, and Laue at a dinner given by Laue in Berlin on 11 November 1931.