Weyl, Hermann

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Hermann Weyl  (9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German physicist, mathematician and philosopher. He left Germany during the Nazi period (his wife was Jewish) and finished his career working in the U.S. at Princeton's Insitute for Advanced Studies (alongside Albert Einstein, who had also been a colleague when they had both worked for a while at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology {ETH} in Zürich).

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.