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  1. Franz Neumann's father, Ernst Neumann, was a farmer who later gave up farming and became an estate agent. Franz's mother was a Countess, who had been divorced, and her parents did not allow her to marry Ernst Neumann, the Countess's factotum, since he was a commoner.

  2. May 19, 2024 · Franz Ernst Neumann (born Sept. 11, 1798, Joachimsthal, Ger.—died May 23, 1895, Königsberg) was a German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician who devised the first mathematical theory of electrical induction, the process of converting mechanical energy to electrical energy.

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  4. Neumann’s mother was a divorced countess whose family prevented her marrying his father, a farmer who later became an estate agent, because he was not of noble birth. Neumann was therefore raised by his paternal grandparents.

  5. Franz Leopold Neumann (23 May 1900 – 2 September 1954) was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States, where ...

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    Neumann's law. Franz Ernst Neumann (September 11, 1798 - May 23, 1895) was a German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician. Neumann was born in Joachimsthal, Prussia, located not far from Berlin. In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin to serve as a volunteer in the campaign against Napoleon, and was wounded in the Battle of Ligny.

  7. Family background. Von Neumann was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ), [13] [14] [15] on December 28, 1903, to a wealthy, non-observant Jewish family. His birth name was Neumann János Lajos. In Hungarian, the family name comes first, and his given names are equivalent to John Louis in English.

  8. Leipzig, Germany, 27 March 1925) mathematics, theoretical physics. Neumann’s father, Franz Ernst Neumann, was professor of physics and mineralogy at Königsberg; his mother, Luise Florentine Hagen, was a sister-in-law of the astronomer F. W. Bessel.