Bruno Jakob Thüring was a German physicist

Physicist

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 and astronomer

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Thüring studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1928, under Alexander Wilkens and Arnold Sommerfeld

Arnold Sommerfeld

Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and groomed a large number of students for the new era of theoretical physics...

. 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

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. From 1934 to 1935, he was an assistant to Heinrich Vogt at the University of Heidelberg. Thüring completed his Habilitation

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 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

University of Vienna

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 and was director of its observatory. After 1945, he lived as a private scholar in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

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During the reign of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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, Thüring was a proponent of Deutsche Physik

Deutsche Physik

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, as were the two Nobel Prize winning physicists Johannes Stark

Johannes Stark

Johannes Stark was a German physicist, and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime.-Early years:...

 and Philipp Lenard

Philipp Lenard

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard , known in Hungarian as Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal, was a Hungarian - German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties...

; Deutsche Physik, was anti-Semitic and had a bias against theoretical physics

Theoretical physics

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, especially including quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics

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. He was also a student of the philosophy

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 of Hugo Dingler

Hugo Dingler

Hugo Albert Emil Hermann Dingler . Dingler was a German scientist and philosopher.-Life:...

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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)