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Fig. 1: Werner Heisenberg presenting his "Weltformel" at the 1958 Planck Centenary in West Berlin. Source: DPA.
Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program
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Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2017-31 Jan 2025)
PhD
MPRG Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program (MPFG Historische Epistemologie der Suche nach der Weltformel)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2023-31 Jan 2025)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2022-31 Jan 2025)
The Classical Age of Quantum Gravity: from Dirac to Wheeler
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2023-31 Jan 2025)
Historical epistemology and the evolution of the ether
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2024-31 Jan 2025)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2017-31 Jan 2025)
PhD
Stephen Hawking's Attempts to Unify Physics (1970s-2010s): A Contribution Toward the Year of Quantum Science
Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Nov 2022-30 Jan 2025)
Dr.
Rethinking the role of unified field theory for physics
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2024-31 Jan 2025)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Dec 2022-31 Jan 2025)
Philip Anderson Against the Big Machines: And How Emergence Made its Way into Physics
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 May 2023-31 Jan 2025)
An analysis of the unusual physics creativity in India in the 1920s
Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2024-30 Jun 2024)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2025)
Physics in Crisis: A Historical Analysis
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Jan 2025)
Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the Development of Unified Field Theory
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 May 2024-31 Jan 2025)