Boris Hessen
Physicist, Deceased Person
1893 – 1936
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Who was Boris Hessen?
Boris Mikhailovich Hessen, also Gessen, was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science.
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- Born
- Aug 16, 1893
Kirovohrad - Also known as
- Гессен, Борис Михайлович
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Profession
- Education
- University of Edinburgh
- Employment
- Moscow State University
- Died
- Dec 20, 1936
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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