Fig. 1: Werner Heisenberg presenting his "Weltformel" at the 1958 Planck Centenary in West Berlin. Source: DPA.
People
Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program
Service & Administrators
Publications Manager (Feb 2018 - Jan 2025)
Researchers
Research Group Leader (Nov 2017 - Jan 2025)
MPRG Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program (MPFG Historische Epistemologie der Suche nach der Weltformel)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2023 - Jan 2025)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2023 - Jan 2025)
Historical epistemology and the evolution of the ether
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (May 2024 - Jan 2025)
S.N. Gupta and the quantization of Einstein’s gravity
Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024 - Jan 2025)
The Coevolution (and eventual Separation) of Quantum Mechanics and QED 1925–1927
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2017 - Jan 2025)
Stephen Hawking's Attempts to Unify Physics (1970s-2010s): A Contribution Toward the Year of Quantum Science
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2022 - Jan 2025)
Rethinking the role of unified field theory for physics
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2024 - Jan 2025)
Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity
Postdoctoral Scholar (May 2024 - Jan 2025)
Philip Anderson Against the Big Machines: And How Emergence Made its Way into Physics
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Jan 2025)
Effective Field Theories and Relational Paradigms
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (May 2023 - Jan 2025)
An analysis of the unusual physics creativity in India in the 1920s
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2024 - Jan 2025)
Physics in Crisis: A Historical Analysis
Postdoctoral Scholar (Jul 2024 - Jan 2025)
Scientific genius and model citizen? Werner Heisenberg in the Public Eye of West-Germany
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023 - Jan 2025)
Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the Development of Unified Field Theory
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2024 - Jan 2025)
Influence of Early Spinor and Complex-Tetrad Formulations of General Relativity on Final Theory Developments
Alumni
Predoctoral Fellow (Aug 2024 - Oct 2024)
Wissenschaftliches Projekt: Inconsistencies in quantum field theories: replacement vs. refinement?
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jul 2021 - Sep 2021)
Roger Penrose's Approach to Quantum Gravity
Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Oct 2024)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (May 2020 - Sep 2020)
Sums Over
Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2018 - Dec 2018)
Renormalization After 1950
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Apr 2022 - Sep 2024)
The Classical Age of Quantum Gravity: from Dirac to Wheeler
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2021 - Jan 2023)
Concepts from mesoscopic physics in particle physics. Unveiling a success story in modern science
(Mar 2018 - Sep 2019)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Apr 2024 - Apr 2024)
Visiting Scholar (Feb 2023 - Jan 2025)
STEPHEN HAWKING’S ATTEMPTS TO UNIFY PHYSICS (1970s-2010s): A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD THE YEAR OF QUANTUM SCIENCE
Visiting Student (Dec 2017 - Apr 2019)
The Genesis of the CPT Theorem
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Oct 2023 - Nov 2023)
Fundamental Physics and Empiricism. The Plausibility of Cosmic Inflation
Visiting Scholar (Oct 2022 - Dec 2022)
Edmund Whittaker, Arthur Eddington and the Final Theory Program
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2019 - Aug 2021)
Communication with (Extra)Terrestrial Intelligence: Science Diplomacy during the Cold War (1960 - 1976)
Predoctoral Fellow (May 2024 - Jun 2024)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2022 - Jan 2024)
Effective Theories: Past, Present, and Beyond
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2019 - Aug 2019)