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Frankfurt, Germany- Paul Oppenheim was born
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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 -
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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 -
Princeton, New Jersey- Paul Oppenheim's death date