In the history of science, Pascual Jordan is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Pascual Jordan as German physicist and politician (1902-1980).
Pascual Jordan was born at Hanover in 1902. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Leibniz University Hannover and University of Göttingen.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Pascual Jordan is described as physicist, politician and university teacher.
His affiliations include University of Hamburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Rostock.
Among his principal works are Jordan algebra, Brans–Dicke theory and Jordan and Einstein frames. Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
His recorded fields of work are theoretical physics.
His work was formally recognised with the Max Planck Medal, Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal and Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award.
That the work was done from Germany matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 1980, at 78. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: Jordan algebra
- Notable work: Brans–Dicke theory
- Notable work: Jordan and Einstein frames
- Notable work: Jordan map
- Affiliated with University of Hamburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Rostock
- Educated at Leibniz University Hannover and University of Göttingen
- Worked as physicist, politician and university teacher
