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E_Fabian Assignment 1 PHIL202

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  • Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach: 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916

    Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach: 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916
    Ernst Mach was widely known for his critical and significant contributions in the fields of physics, philosophy, and psychology. He paved the way for humanity in learning about the speed of sound and super-sonic motion in general by 1855. Mach is well known for his stellar work to the point that, for engineers and others alike, Mach is the “ratio of the speed of sound in the given medium to the speed of projectile”.

  • Charles Sanders Peirce: 10 September 1839 - 19 April 1914

    Charles Sanders Peirce: 10 September 1839 - 19 April 1914
    Charles Sanders Peirce: 10 September 1839 – 19 April 1914
    Charles Sanders Peirce was a philosopher and scientist who is well-known for his early work on pragmatism, the philosophical movement that claims that if an idea or proposition is, in fact, true, it will become widely accepted; otherwise, it is considered impractical if it is rejected. . Pierce was known for applying scientific principles to philosophy.

  • Jules Henri Poincare: 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912

    Jules Henri Poincare: 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912
    Jules Henri Poincare was a well-respected & influential French born philosopher of science and mathematics. Also a notable scientist & mathematician. Poincare studied the disciplines of Engineering, Mathematics, & Physics in Paris, earning a teaching position at the University of Paris in 1881. His unique perspective allowed him to challenge formalism & logicism, beginning with his doctoral dissertation (1879), where he found a new method of analyzing the proportion of functions & equations.

  • Werner Heisenberg: 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976

    Werner Heisenberg: 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976
    Werner Heisenberg was a German born, Nobel Prize Winning (1932), German theoretical physicist. He began his career at the University of Munich where he studied physics under well respected individuals such as Arnold Sommerfeld and Alfred Pringsheim. In 1923 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich. He went on to work at University of Gottingen, University of Copenhagen, & University of Berlin. More so, in 1929 he toured the United States, Japan, and India, offering lectures.