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Flamm, Ludwig

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BornVienna, Austria, 29 January 1885

DiedVienna, Austria, 4 December 1964

The scientific contributions of Ludwig Flamm concern theoretical physics. This researcher from the University of Vienna was one of the first to understand – rather intuitively – the meaning and possible consequences of the 4-D structure of spacetime in the framework of general relativity theory. In a 1916 article, he visualized the spatial curvature of the Schwarzschild metric by a surface shaped as a paraboloid, giving the first hint of possible spacetime “shortcuts” for which 50 years later the American physicist John Wheeler coined the popular term “wormhole.”

Ludwig Flamm was born into a family of Austrian retailers. He studied physics at the University of Vienna and got his diploma in 1909 with a dissertation on wave mechanics entitled Eigentliche Wellensysteme. Next he became an assistant to Gustav Jäger (1865–1938) at the Technischen Hochschule (Technical School of Advanced Studies) of Vienna. He got his...

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