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GP: Fachverband Geschichte der Physik

GP 10: Physics and Culture

GP 10.1: Talk

Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 18:00–18:20, GP-H7

European and American Research Traditions in the 20th Century — •Alexander Unzicker — Pestalozzi-Gymnasium München

While the European research tradition, in the spirit of natural philosophy, was focused on the fundamental laws of nature and pursued the question of 'what holds the world together at its innermost folds', in the US, a technologically oriented culture dominated, with a desire to realize large, visionary projects, such as the atomic bomb and landing on the moon. It is argued that this change in scientific culture is still visible in contemporary physics.