Bruno Thüring

Bruno Jakob Thüring (September 7, 1905 in Warmensteinach – May 6, 1989 in Karlsruhe) was a German physicist and astronomer.

Thüring studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1928, under Alexander Wilkens and Arnold Sommerfeld.^[1] Wilkens was professor of astronomy and director of the Munich Observatory, which was part of the University. From 1928 to 1933, he was an assistant at the Munich Observatory. From 1934 to 1935, he was an assistant to Heinrich Vogt at the University of Heidelberg. Thüring completed his Habilitation there in 1935, whereupon he became an Observator at the Munich Observatory. In 1937, he became a lecturer (Dozent) at the University of Munich. From 1940 to 1945, he held the chair for astronomy at the University of Vienna and was director of its observatory. After 1945, he lived as a private scholar in Karlsruhe.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

During the reign of Adolf Hitler, Thüring was a proponent of Deutsche Physik, as were the two Nobel Prize–winning physicists Johannes Stark and Philipp Lenard; Deutsche Physik, was anti-Semitic and had a bias against theoretical physics, especially including quantum mechanics. He was also a student of the philosophy of Hugo Dingler.^[7][8]

Books

• Bruno Thüring Albert Einsteins Umsturzversuch der Physik (Georg Lüttke Verlag, 1941)
• Bruno Thüring Einführung in die Methoden der Programmierung kaufmännischer und wissenschaftlicher Probleme für elektronische Rechenanlagen. T. 1. Die Logik der Programmierung (Göller, 1957)
• Bruno Thüring Einführung in die Methoden der Programmierung kaufmännischer und wissenschaftlicher Probleme für elektronische Rechenanlagen. T. 2. Automatische Programmierung dargest. an d. Univac Fac-Tronic (Göller, 1958)
• Bruno Thüring Die Gravitation und die philosophischen Grundlagen der Physik (Duncker u. Humblot GmbH, 1967)
• Bruno Thüring Einführung in die Protophysik der Welle. Kymometrie (Duncker & Humblot GmbH, 1978)
• Bruno Thüring Methodische Kosmologie. Alternativen zur Expansion des Weltalls und zum Urknall (Haag u. Herchen, 1985)

Notes

1. Thüring - 1928 Dissertation title: Darstellung der Bewegung eines Planeten der Jupitergruppe durch eine absolute Störungstheorie. Advisor 1: Alexander Wilkens. Advisor 2: Arnold Sommerfeld.
2. Thüring – Biographical Note Friedenblitz
3. Thüring – Biographical Note Konstanz
4. Wilkens1 and Wilkens2 – Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Munich Observatory.
5. Vogt – LSW University of Heidelberg
6. Thüring – University of Vienna
7. Thüring’s Polemic
8. Clark, 1971, pp. 525-526.

References

• Clark, Ronald W. Einstein: The Life and Times (World, 1971)