Talk:Peter Grünberg

Jewish family?
I erased the passus "Jewish family", because there is no confirmation of this fact. Peter Grünberg was raised catolic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.94.122.221 (talk) 08:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

But here i have managed to find a source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.228.119.84 (talk) 17:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The source is clearly unreliable; it is merely an edited version of the Wikipedia article itself, but with terms like "German" changed to "Jewish German," etc., leading to the ridiculous statement: "like the rest of the German-speaking Jewish majority of Pilsen, he [Peter Grünberg] had been expelled with the rest of his family by the Czech government by means of the Benes decrees after World War II." Needless to say, the Jews were never a majority of the population of Pilsen (at most 2%-3% of the pre-war population), and there were hardly any Jews left alive there after WWII. These few survivors were not expelled to Germany with the ethnic German population of Pilsen. The name "Grinberg" (Grünberg's original surname), although virtually always Jewish in Central Europe, is also found amongst ethnic Germans in Russia (Grünberg's father's birthplace). (Since there is no equivalent for the German "ü" in Russian, the German name "Grünberg" is frequently rendered as "Grinberg," i.e., the "ü" is replaced by the Cyrillic equivalent for "i" by both ethnic Germans and Jews in Russia.) Jinfo 04:08, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Picture?
Does anyone have a free picture of him we could use here? henrik • talk  18:21, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I think the picture that is currently used is a rather bad one. We should replace it with something more appropriate. Werni2 13:20, 9 May 2008)


 * Please stop removing the photo just because it does not please you. I am convinced that it was you, as e.g. User talk:88.65.21.47, who removed the photo already twice in the last weeks. -- Matthead  Discuß   22:14, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Spelling of Title
Just wanted to point out that many media reports spell his name as "Gruenberg", rather than "Grünberg". (A few are spelling it "Grunberg", as well). In fact, in google news searches, the alternative spelling seems to be more prevelant:
 * "Gruenberg" only: 1,200 (including Reuters, AP, USA Today, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera,  Voice of America, Sydney Morning Herald)
 * "Grünberg" only: 80 (including International Herald Tribune, Spiegel (English), American Institute of Physics, The Times)
 * "Grunberg" only: 65 (including BBC, China's People's Daily, and UPI)

Although there are obvious reasons for keeping the article at "Grünberg" (this is the given name, at least in German, it's the name on Nobel press release, and on at least one English-language academic paper ), the above provides evidence that the most typical rendering in English is the common transliteration "Gruenberg". Should we consider changing the article title? Erudy 22:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Niemals! Cjs2111 01:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The MoS mostly suggests otherwise. is exactly what redirects were created for - make sure there are appropriate redirects from the other spellings and the problem is solved.Peter Gruenberg already existed, and I added Peter Grunberg. henrik  • talk  06:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I prefer original names in the articles, so Grünberg is the choice for me.  ≈Tulkolahten≈ ≈talk≈ 09:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

His father "Grünberg Theodor † 27.11.1945"
An totally unsourced statement had been introduced, while another statement was fact-tagged, and later removed.

Also remarkable is what Author: Israel-Times.com - Thursday, October 11, 2007 published. -- Matthead DisOuß   22:15, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Religious stance
I don't see how you can possibly have a reference for "Christian" as "Yes I believe in God". I mean he may well be a Christian, and as I can't read German, he may say that he is a Christain in the article, but if so then please make the reference to where he says he is a Christian (or where he says he is a Muslim or otherwise). If it doesn't say "I am a Christian" then the "religious stance" section should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.187.130.124 (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know wether "Religious stance" is useful for this scientist bio anyway, but I've quoted the interview section. He was raised "strictly Catholic". -- Matthead Discuß   09:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Per his Nobel Prize autobiography Grunberg says that his religious views are influenced by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Parable of the Ring from Nathan the Wise: "Brought up rather conservative catholique I see religions now more or less in the spirit of Lessing's (German dramatist 1729-1781) ring parabola which I would top by saying that – not only does nobody know which is the right ring (standing for religion) – but there indeed is no such thing as a right or false ring. Per se they are all equivalent. What really counts is how religions are practised, for example, with tolerance. And yet I believe that there is more than what we see, hear etc., or can detect with instruments. But it is a feeling borne out of many details of my personal experience and therefore impossible to share or communicate." This hardly seems like Catholic orthodoxy to me. -- Qmwne 235  03:51, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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Date of Death
According to | Pressemitteilung Forschungszentrum Jülich (sorry not in english), he died last week, the actual date is not mentioned.--Amateur-Wikipedianer (talk) 18:54, 9 April 2018 (UTC)