Burkhard Heim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Burkhard Heim

German physicist

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1925

Place of Birth: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Jan-2001

Profession: physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Burkhard Heim

  • Burkhard Heim (German: [ha?m]; 9 February 1925 – 14 January 2001) was a German theoretical physicist.
  • He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory.
  • One of his childhood ambitions was to develop a method of space travel, which contributed to his motivation to find such a theory.During World War II, Heim was conscripted into the air force.
  • However, a previous essay about explosives led to his working briefly in a chemical laboratory as an explosives technician, instead.
  • An explosion in the laboratory caused by the mishandling of unstable compounds left him with debilitating handicaps.
  • The accident left him without hands and mostly deaf and blind when he was 19, forcing him to use Krukenberg hands.
  • Illobrand von Ludwiger claims this to be a terrorist assassination attempt, for which Heim saved the assassins life by "forgiving him".
  • Neither name nor motivation of the claimed assassin nor details of the "forgiving" and how this saved his life are given. His behavior subsequently became progressively eccentric and reclusive.
  • Eventually, he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything.

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