Max Jammer

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Max Jammer (born 1915 in Berlin, Germany) is an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics.

He studied physics, philosophy and history of Science at Hebrew University. After a PhD in experimental physics, Jammer went to Harvard University for postgraduate work. 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 establishing the Department and becoming Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he later also served as President and Rector. He also co-founded the Institute for Philosophy of Science at Tel-Aviv University, and has been President of the Association for the Advancement for Science in Israel. He was Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, the University of Gottingen, The Institut Henri Poincare, Columbia University and other Universities in the United States and Canada.

Awards received by Jammer include the Monograph Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prize for 'an outstanding book on theology and natural sciences' from the Templeton Foundation, the Israel Prize, and the 2003 EMET Prize awarded by the Prime Minister of Israel.

[edit] Selected Publications

• Jammer, Max, Concepts of space: the history of theories of space in physics. Cambridge (Mass): Harvard U.P., 1954 New York: Harper, 1960; 2e: Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1969; 3e: New York: Dover, 1993. ISBN 0-486-27119-6. (Foreword by Albert Einstein)
• —, Concepts of force: a study in the foundations of dynamics. Cambridge (Mass): Harvard U.P., 1957 New York: Harper, 1962 New York: Dover, 1999. ISBN 0-486-40689-X
• —, Concepts of mass: in classical and modern physics. Cambridge (Mass): Harvard U.P., 1961 New York: Harper, 1964 New York: Dover, 1997. ISBN 0-486-29998-8
• —, Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U.P., 1999. ISBN 0-691-01017-X
• —, The conceptual development of quantum mechanics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966; 2e: New York: American Institute of Physics, 1989. ISBN 0-88318-617-9
• —, The philosophy of quantum mechanics: the interpretations of quantum mechanics in historical perspective. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1974. ISBN 0-471-43958-4
• —, Einstein and religion : physics and theology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U.P., 1999. ISBN 0-691-10297-X
• —, Concepts of simultaneity : from antiquity to Einstein and beyond. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2006. ISBN 0-8018-8422-5