Proust’s questionnaires – made popular in a convenient form by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – measure the world. Numerous personalities answered the questions and revealed private things to the critical reader. Time for the “acolytes” (“Die Zeit”) to face comparison. We asked physicists – from the field of metrology in particular – how they assess the importance of their profession.
Do you want to know the answers given by the individual persons? Then click on a picture or a name.
If you want to see all the answers to
some selected questions, start here.
Author: Birgit Ehlbeck / Internet-editor: Erika Schow

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894)

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Niels Bohr (1885–1962)

Werner Heisenberg (1901 – 1976)

Reinhard Scherm

Uwe Keyser

Ernst O. Göbel

Andreas Bauch

Annette Paul

Gesine Grosche
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