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Peripatetic Highlights in Bern

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This tour of significant scientific sites in Bern uses the local legacy of its most illustrious scientists, Albert Einstein (1879–1955) and Fritz Houtermans (1903–1966), as its guiding thread through the old town and the university district.

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  1. Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, University of Bern, Uni-Tobler, Länggassstrasse 49a, CH-3012, Bern 9, Switzerland

    Ann M. Hentschel

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Ann M.Hentschel is translator of the correspondence volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and is currently employed by the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Bern to write the guide for a city tour of Einstein’s old haunts in Bern for the coming jubilee of special relativity in 2005. For the historical companion guidebook, see Hentschel and Grasshoff, Albert Einstein (ref. 4) and the website <http://www.einstein2005.ch>.

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Hentschel, A.M. Peripatetic Highlights in Bern. Phys. perspect. 7, 107–129 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-004-0232-0

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