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Especially mathematics, but also theoretical physics works basically with structures. The experimental verification or falsification of the physical structures employs units, which allow, in addition to a quantification by numbers, also a qualitative differentiation — a length, for example three meter, is different from a mass, for example three kilogram.
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Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–1887).
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Empedocles of Acragas, around -(490–430).
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Max Planck (1858–1947).
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Isaac Newton (1642–1727).
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Arthur Eddington (1882–1944).
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Edwin Hubble (1889–1953).
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716).
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Johannes Kepler (1571–1630).
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
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James Prescott Joule (1818–1889).
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Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909).
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928).
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Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916).
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Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Joseph Loschmidt (1821–1895).
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George Gamow (1904–1968).
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William Thomson Kelvin (1824–1907).
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Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906).
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James Watt (1736–1819).
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Max Born (1882–1970).
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Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976).
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William Hamilton (1805–1865).
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Paul Dirac (1902–1984).
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Arthur Compton (1892–1962).
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Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981).
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Otto Lummer (1860–1925).
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Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928).
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Stephen Hawking (1942–).
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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642).
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813).
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Simeon Poisson (1781–1840).
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Sophus Lie (1842–1899).
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851).
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Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806).
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André Marie Ampère (1775–1836).
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Hermann Grassmann (1809–1877).
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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953).
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Alessandro Volta (1745–1827).
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Michael Faraday (1791–1867).
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Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854).
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Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951).
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Edwin Hall (1855–1938).
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Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827).
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988).
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James Clerc Maxwell (1831–1879).
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Niels Bohr (1885–1962).
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Johannes Rydberg (1854–1919).
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Victor F. Weisskopf (1908–2002).
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Steven Weinberg (1933–).
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Pythagoras of Samos, around -530.
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Platon -(428–348).
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Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).
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Erdal Inönü (1926–2007).
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Eugene Wigner (1902–1995).
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Emmy Noether (1882–1935).
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Carolus Magnus (768–814).
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Saller, H. (2017). Units and Orders of Magnitude. In: Operational Symmetries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58664-9_2
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