Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider

Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (25 April 1891 – 6 February 1990) was a German-Australian physicist and philosopher. She is best known for her collaboration and correspondence with physicists Albert Einstein, Max von Laue, and Max Planck.[1][2][3] Rosenthal-Schneider earned a PhD in philosophy in 1920 at the University of Berlin, where she first met Albert Einstein. After leaving Nazi Germany and emigrating to Australia in 1938, she became a tutor in the German department at the University of Sydney in 1945 and taught history and philosophy of science.[4][5] In the 1940s and 1950s, she exchanged a series of letters with Albert Einstein about philosophical aspects of physics, such as theory of relativity,[6] fundamental constants and physical reality.[7][8][9][10] She remained in contact with Einstein through correspondence until the death of Einstein in 1955.[11] Rosenthal-Schneider contributed various articles and book reviews to the history of science journal Isis.[12]

Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider
Born(1891-04-25)25 April 1891
Died6 February 1990(1990-02-06) (aged 98)
Sydney
Alma materUniversity of Berlin, Germany
SpouseHans S. A. Rosenthal (1890–1968) (m. 26 August 1922)
ChildrenStephanie
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, philosophy
InstitutionsGermany, United Kingdom, University of Sydney, Australia
ThesisDie Beziehungen der Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie zur Philosophie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kantischen Lehre [The relationship of Einstein's theory of relativity to philosophy, with special reference to the Kantian doctrine (1920)
Doctoral advisorAlois Riehl, Max von Laue

Notable works

  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (1 January 1980). Thomas Braun (ed.). Reality and Scientific Truth: Discussions With Einstein, Von Laue, and Planck (Records and correspondence). Wayne State University Press, 1980. original from the University of Michigan. ISBN 9780814316504. OCLC 6222962.
  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (1988). Begegnungen mit Einstein, von Laue und Planck : Realität und wissenschaftliche Wahrheit (in German). Braunschweig ; Wiesbaden : Vieweg, cop. 1988. ISBN 9783528089702. OCLC 64797021.
  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Das Raum-Zeit-Problem bei Kant und Einstein (in German). Berlin : Springer, 1921. OCLC 749766417.
  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Lingua Latina Medicinalis = Lateinisches Lehrbuch für Mediziner (in Latin). Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, 1965. OCLC 802874015.
  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Presuppositions and anticipations in Einstein's physics. New York, NY, 1949. OCLC 315045254.
  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Albert Einstein : 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955. Sydney, 1955. OCLC 315045356.
  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Leteinische Satzlehre (in German). Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, 1970. OCLC 802118103.
  • Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse (1980). Harry Woolf (ed.). "Reminiscenses of Einstein". Some Strangeness in the Proportion. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts: 521. Bibcode:1980ssp..conf..521R.

Quote of a discussion with Albert Einstein, November 1919

References

  1. Denz, Cornelia; Vogt, Annette (2005). "Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider – eine Frau interpretiert Albert Einstein" [Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider: A woman interprets Albert Einstein] (PDF). Einsteins Kolleginnen – Physikerinnen gestern und heute [Einstein's (female) colleagues: (Women) physicists yesterday and today] (in German). pp. 10–13. ISBN 978-3933476081. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  2. Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (25 August 2000). The Probability Interpretation and the Statistical Transformation Theory, the Physical Interpretation, and the Empirical and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: 1926 – 1932 (illustrated ed.). Springer Science & Business Media, 2000. p. v. ISBN 9780387989716.
  3. Stephen G. Brush (1989). "Prediction and Theory Evaluation: The Case of Light Bending". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 246 (4934): 1124–9. Bibcode:1989Sci...246.1124B. doi:10.1126/science.246.4934.1124. JSTOR 1704755. PMID 17820957. S2CID 22145570.
  4. "Rosenthal Schneider, Ilse". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  5. "Physics". Archived from the original on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  6. "Hens, eggs, elephants and fear of stupid questions". The Irish Times. 5 October 2006. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014 via HighBeam.
  7. Begegnungen mit Einstein, von Laue, und Planck (Vieweg Verlag 1988) by Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, English edition: Reality and Scientific Truth : Discussions with Einstein, von Laue, and Planck (Wayne State Univ Pr, 1910)
  8. Susan S. Lukesh (6 September 1999). "Email and potential loss to future archives and scholarship". First Monday. 4 (9). Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  9. I. Bernard Cohen (1951). "Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist by Paul Arthur Schilpp". Isis. The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society. 42 (1): 77. JSTOR 226691.
  10. Max Jammer (5 September 2011). Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology (reprint ed.). Princeton University Press, 2011. p. 53. ISBN 9781400840878.
  11. Albert B. Stewart (1982). "Reality and Scientific Truth by Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider". The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Inc. 40 (3): 362. JSTOR 4611136.
  12. For instance, Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse (February 1948). "Review: Geschichte der Physik by Max v. Laue". Isis. 38 (3–4): 258–260. doi:10.1086/348092. JSTOR 226134. and Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse (December 1950). "Review: Vorträge der aus Anlass seines 300. Geburtstages in Hamburg abgehaltenen wissenschaftlichen Tagung by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz". Isis. 41 (3–4): 310–313. doi:10.1086/349209. JSTOR 227066.
  13. Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse (13 March 2013). Begegnungen mit Einstein, von Laue und Planck: Realität und wissenschaftliche Wahrheit. Springer-Verlag. p. 60. ISBN 9783663018841. Retrieved 17 June 2022.

Primary sources

  • Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider; Albert Einstein. Rosenthal-Schneider Collection (Records and correspondence). University of New South Wales: 1931–1954. OCLC 222709357.
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