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Ernst Mach

Native name: Ernst Mach

Also known as: Ernst Mach Jr, Ernst Waldfried Joseph Wenzl Mach

Place of birth:

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Birth date:

1838-02-18 • Birth Sign: Aquarius

Citizenship:

Kingdom of Bohemia

Death date:

1916-02-19 (78 years old)

Short Bio:

Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( ; ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honor. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

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