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23.06.2021 14:09
HU podcast: “Hermann von Helmholtz was a pop star”
A conversation with Daniel Tyradellis and Felix Sattler about one of the most colorful scientists of the 19th century, whose 200th birthday Humboldt University is celebrating this summer
Formulating scientific questions and thoughts in such a way that everyone really understands them is a science in itself – and Hermann von Helmholtz was one of the best in this subject. This is what Prof. Dr. Daniel Tyradellis, scientist and curator at the Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology at Humboldt University.
The teaching of teaching as a separate discipline is often underestimated today, says Daniel Tyradellis. At that time, people went to Helmholtz’s lectures just as one would go to a Star Wars film today, according to Tyradellis: “The man was a pop star”.
Helmholtz, whose 200th birthday will be celebrated this summer, was, among other things, a physiologist, doctor and physicist – a universal scholar who invented and built many apparatuses. We know his ophthalmoscope and we still use it today. The invention of the first synthesizer also goes back to Helmholtz. “He not only researched the origin of sound, but also the ear. He was able to explain both precisely,” says curator Felix Sattler from the Animal Anatomical Theater at Humboldt University. Sattler and Tyradellis work in an interdisciplinary manner – a way of working that Helmholtz lived to a particular degree.
The radio journalist Cora Knoblauch talks to Felix Sattler and Daniel Tyradellis about the still important necessity to think and work like Helmholtz and about how this kind of thinking leads to the transfer of knowledge that, for example through an exhibition, can make people think cancel the already booked cruise.
You can find out more about this in the new episode of “Listening to Humboldt” on the HU podcast page (https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/podcampus). All previous episodes of “Humboldt Hören” from “Light, Atoms and Secret Services” to “Plants are unpredictable” can also be found there.
You can also find Humboldt-Universität’s podcasts on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Additional Information:
https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/podcampus The podcast “Listen to Humboldt” on the HU podcast page
Features of this press release:
Journalists, teachers / pupils, students, scientists, everyone
Cultural studies
supraregional
Colorful science
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