Grete Hermann

Grete Hermann
Grete Hermann
Born(1901-03-02)2 March 1901
Bremen, German Empire
Died15 April 1984(1984-04-15) (aged 83)
Bremen, West Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationUniversity of Göttingen (PhD, 1926, adv. Emmy Noether)
Occupation(s)Mathematician and philosopher
Employer(s)Assistant for Leonard Nelson; professor for philosophy and physics at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Bremen

Grete Hermann (2 March 1901 – 15 April 1984)[1] was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a "no hidden-variables theorem" by John von Neumann. It has been suggested that, had her critique not remained nearly unknown for decades, the historical development of quantum mechanics might have been very different.[2]

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  2. ^ Lee Smolin Public Lecture Special: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, event occurs at 1:11:31, retrieved 12 November 2023