Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (born 1838)

Ernst Mach

Austrian physicist, philosopher and university educator (1838–1916)

Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honour. As a philosopher of science, he…