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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectHermann Weyl
Dates
November 9, 1885 – December 9, 1955
Authorized Form of Name
Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955
Additional Forms of Names
Veĭlʹ, German, 1885-1955
Weyl, H., 1885-1955
Weyl, H. (Hermann), 1885-1955
Weyl, Hermann (Claus Hugo Hermann), 1885-1955
Biography
Abstract
Hermann Weyl was Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study (1933-1955). Other institutional affiliations included University of Göttingen. His research interests included quantum mechanics, relativity, differential equations, number theory, and convex bodies.
Important Dates
November 9, 1885Birth, Elmshorn (Germany).
1905 – 1906Student, University of Munich, Munich (Germany).
1908Obtained PhD, University of Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany).
1910 – 1913Privatdozent, University of Göttingen.
1913 – 1930Professor of Mathematics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich (Switzerland).
1928 – 1929Visiting Professor, Princeton University.
1930 – 1933Professor of Mathematics, University of Göttingen.
1933 – 1955Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (N.J.).
1940Member, National Academy of Sciences.
December 9, 1955Death, Zurich (Switzerland).
Occupation
Mathematician.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Bär, Ellen
Second Wife. Married in 1950.
Weyl, Anna
Mother.
Weyl, Helene
First Wife. Married 1913-1948.
Weyl, Ludwig
Father.
Advisors & Collaborators
Hilbert, David, 1862-1943
PhD advisor at University of Göttingen, "Singuläre Integralgleichungen mit besonder Berücksichtigung des Fourierschen Integraltheorems."
Colleagues
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Cooper, Leon N. (Leon Neil), 1930-
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-2004
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Additional
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966
Fok, V. A. (Vladimir Aleksandrovich), 1898-1974
Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978
Havens, William W. (William Westerfield), 1920-2004
Heitler, Walter, 1904-
Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980
Korn, Elizabeth P.
Kronig, R. (Ralph), 1904-
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Schrödinger, Annemarie, 1896-1965
Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Wintner, Aurel
Institutions
Major Positions
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Professor of Mathematics.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Professor, School of Mathematics.
Princeton University. Department of Mathematics
Visiting Professor.
Universität Göttingen
Obtained PhD (1908). Privatdozent and Professor of Mathematics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member.
Universität München
Attended from 1905-1906.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Hermann Weyl collection, 1938-1955.
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Hermann Weyl manuscripts and correspondence, 1909-1955.
Handschriftenabteilung
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Zurich, Switzerland
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute Archives
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Subject
Aurel Wintner papers, 1848-1961.
Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Abteilung für Handschriften und seltene Drucke
Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Papendiek 14, D-37073 Göttingen
Elizabeth P. Korn sketches, 1928-1940s.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Gustav Herglotz papers.
Abteilung für Handschriften und seltene Drucke
Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Papendiek 14, D-37073 Göttingen
John Von Neumann papers, 1912-1996 (bulk 1935-1957).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Joseph Edward Mayer papers, 1920-1983.
Mandeville Special Collections Library
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Oral history interview with Annamarie Bertel Schrödinger, 1963 April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1963 November 21 and December 3, 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1968 August 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with P. A. M. Dirac, 1962 April 1, 1963 May 6, 7, 10 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Paul Sophus Epstein, 1962 May 25, 26 and June 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ralph de Laer Kronig, 1962 November 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1963 June 17 and 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fok, 1967 October 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Walter Heitler, 1963 March 18 and 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William W. Havens, 1991 February 21, July 17, 29, Augut 5, 12 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oswald Veblen papers, 1881-1960 (bulk 1920-1960).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Pascual Jordan correspondence [microform], 1923-1930.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Paul S. Epstein papers, 1898-1966.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Samuel A. Goudsmit papers, 1928-1932.
Library.
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Published Resources
Author
Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik / von Hermann Weyl.
Hilbert. With an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work by Hermann Weyl.
Philosophy of mathematics and natural science.
Raum. Zeit. Materie. : Vorlesungen uber allgemeine relativitatstheorie / von Hermann Weyl.
Space-time-matter, by Hermann Weyl. Tr. from the German by Henry L. Brose. With fifteen diagrams.
The classical groups, their invariants and representations, by Hermann Weyl …
The open world : three lectures on the metaphysical implications of science / by Dr. Hermann Weyl.
Subject
"Hermann Weyl: 1885-1955", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences