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Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (25 April 1891 – 6 February 1990) was a German-Australian physicist and philosopher. She is best known for her collaboration and correspondence with physicists Albert Einstein, Max von Laue, and Max Planck. Rosenthal-Schneider earned a PhD in philosophy in 1920 at the University of Berlin, where she first met Albert Einstein. After leaving Nazi Germany and emigrating to Australia in 1938, she became a tutor in the German department at the University of Sydney in 1945 and taught history and philosophy of science. In the 1940s and 1950s, she exchanged a series of letters with Albert Einstein about philosophical aspects of physics, such as theory of relativity, fundamental constants and physical reality. She remained in contact with Einstein through correspondence until the death of Einstein in 1955.
Notable works
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (1 January 1980).Thomas Braun (ed.). Reality and Scientific Truth: Discussions With Einstein, Von Laue, and Planck (Records and correspondence). Wayne State University Press, 1980. original from the University of Michigan. ISBN 9780814316504. OCLC 6222962.
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (1988). Begegnungen mit Einstein, von Laue und Planck : Realität und wissenschaftliche Wahrheit (in German). Braunschweig ; Wiesbaden : Vieweg, cop. 1988. ISBN 9783528089702. OCLC 64797021.
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Das Raum-Zeit-Problem bei Kant und Einstein (in German). Berlin : Springer, 1921. OCLC 749766417.
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Lingua Latina Medicinalis = Lateinisches Lehrbuch für Mediziner (in Latin). Leipzig : VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, 1965. OCLC 802874015.
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Presuppositions and anticipations in Einstein's physics. New York, NY, 1949. OCLC 315045254.
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Albert Einstein : 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955. Sydney, 1955. OCLC 315045356.
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Leteinische Satzlehre (in German). Leipzig : VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, 1970. OCLC 802118103.
- Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse.Harry Woolf (ed.). Reminiscenses of Einstein. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts. Bibcode:1980ssp..conf..521R.
Primary sources
- Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider; Albert Einstein. Rosenthal-Schneider Collection (Records and correspondence). University of New South Wales: 1931–1954. OCLC 222709357.
