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Birth of Paul Oppenheim
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Fleeing Germany
Paul Oppenheim fled Germany to later settle in Brussels and then to the USA. Oppenheim held a doctorate degree from the University of Giessen, but focused his time more so on philosophy, methodology and science. In fact, Oppenheim has released two books and numerous articles in three different languages (French, English and German).
(1977. New York Times Archives) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/24/archives/paul-oppenheim-92-of-princeton-a-noted-philosopher-of-science.html -
Publication of Studies in the logic of explanation
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Publication of The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis
Oppenheim and Putnam publish "The unity of science as a working hypothesis". Without going into mass detail, this article is essentially comparing and asking if certain fundamentals, theories, facts, etc can be unified under methods such as Biology, Chemistry, Methodology.
Here is a youtube video to help explain the process/theory: https://youtu.be/5tK3yC18MTM
Oppenheim, Paul; Putnam, Hilary (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1958) https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/184622 -
Death of Paul Oppenheim
Princeton, New Jersey- Paul Oppenheim's death date