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"On the History of Unified Field Theories. Part II. (ca. 1930 – ca. 1965)"
Hubert F. M. Goenner 
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Mathematical Preliminaries
3 Interlude: Meanderings – UFT in the late 1930s and the 1940s
4 Unified Field Theory and Quantum Mechanics
5 Born–Infeld Theory
6 Affine Geometry: Schrödinger as an Ardent Player
7 Mixed Geometry: Einstein’s New Attempt
8 Schrödinger II: Arbitrary Affine Connection
9 Einstein II: From 1948 on
10 Einstein–Schrödinger Theory in Paris
11 Higher-Dimensional Theories Generalizing Kaluza’s
12 Further Contributions from the United States
13 Research in other English Speaking Countries
14 Additional Contributions from Japan
15 Research in Italy
16 The Move Away from Einstein–Schrödinger Theory and UFT
17 Alternative Geometries
18 Mutual Influence and Interaction of Research Groups
19 On the Conceptual and Methodic Structure of Unified Field Theory
20 Concluding Comment
Acknowledgements
References
Footnotes
Biographies
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat, née Baudot (1912 – 1980) first studied philosophy and then joined the group of theoretical physics around L. de Broglie at the Institut Henri Poincaré, in 1925. She wrote her PhD thesis with him on the “Theory of the photon in a Riemannian space” in 1939. The “second part” of the thesis was done under the supervision of Jean Perrin on “Artificial Radioactivity”. It seems that she received her degree only in 1941. Since 1956 she became Professeur à la Faculté des Sciences of the University of Paris (Sorbonne); in this faculty she thus joined her teacher L. de Broglie. Mme. Tonnelat held a diploma in the history of science and, since 1949 regularly taught courses in this field as well. She also created an interdisciplinary seminar on the History of Sciences. Among her publications in this field, a book on the history of the relativity principle is to be noted [645*]. In 1945 she received the prize “Pierson Perrin” and in 1970 the prize “Henri Poincaré” of the Academy of Sciences in Paris [418, 92*]. Tonnelat also published a volume of novellas.