Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Alexander Blum

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr. rer. nat.

Funded by the FHI (partially)

Residence: May 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012


Profile

Curriculum Vitae:

since 2010: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MPIWG, Dept. 1
2009: PhD in theoretical high energy physics (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
2007-2009: PhD scholarship - Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2006-2009: PhD student (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)


Current work:

History of early Quantum Field Theory and the origins of renormalization
History of Quantum Gravity and the origin of approaches to Quantum Gravity in parallel developments in Quantum Electrodynamics and Particle Physics
Prehistory of Quantum Electrodynamics - Conceptual History of the Light Quantum Hypothesis



Teaching activities

2007-2009
Several Tutorials on Experimental Physics (Atomic, Nuclear, Particle, Environmental Physics, Optics, Quantum Mechanics) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg