Richard Gans: The First Quantum Physicist in Latin America |
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Authors: | Maria Cecilia von Reichenbach |
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Institution: | (1) School of Physics, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland |
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Abstract: | Richard Gans (1880–1954) was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Physics of the National University
of La Plata,Argentina, in 1912 and published a series of papers on quantum physics between 1915 and 1918 that marked him as
the first quantum physicist in Latin America. I set Gans’s work within the context of his education and career in Germany
prior to 1912 and his life and work in Argentina until 1925, as well as the foundation of the Institute of Physics of the
National University of La Plata in 1906–1909 and its subsequent development by Emil Bose (1874–1911). I conclude by commenting
on Gans’s life after he returned to Germany in 1925 and then immigrated once again to Argentina in 1947. |
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