Gustav Andreas Johannes Jaumann (1863–1924) was an

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. An assistant to the physicist

Ernst Mach Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( , ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was a Moravian-born Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of one's speed to that of sound is named the Mach ...

, he had a talent for mathematics, but disbelieved the existence of small particles like

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s and

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s. Between 1901 and 1924 he taught physics at the

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. He won the

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of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1911.

Remembered for

* "Corotational derivative" expresses the stress tensor in a rotating body. Han-Chin Wu (2005) "''Continuum Mechanics and Plasticity''" in: David Gao and Ray W. Ogden (Eds.); ''CRC Series: Modern Mechanics and Mathematics''; Chapman & Hall / CRC, Boca Raton, U.S.A.; 2005; 676 pp. — pages 170ff., 172ff. * Jaumann was offered a professorship at

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in 1911, but refused the position. The candidate who was the faculty's first choice,

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, would accept the offer after it was turned down by Jaumann, who is alleged to have said in an unsubstantiated quotation from Philipp Frank, "If Einstein has been proposed as the first choice because of the belief that he has greater achievements to his credit, then I will have nothing to do with a university that chases after modernity and does not appreciate merit."Isaacson (2007), p. 163 The actual reason as alleged by the Austrian Minister of Education, in his official report to Emperor Franz Josef, seems to have been about money. The beleaguered situation of Germans in Prague at the time, with which Jaumann was familiar, may also have been a factor in his declining the post. Jaumann was apparently the candidate preferred by the Austro-Hungarian ministry, presumably because he was Austrian and not a foreigner. Einstein, under the impression he would not receive the job, however, blamed his "Semitic origin hatthe ministry did not approve f.

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References

*Blackmore J. T., Itagaki R., Tanaka S. (2001), ''Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895-1930: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science'' (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

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External links

* Gustav Jaumann in German Wikipedia
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