Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Austrian physicist whose name got slapped on the Mach number for supersonic speeds. His philosophical jabs at Newton's physics helped nudge Einstein toward relativity.
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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 honor. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
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