Bruno Jakob Thüring (7 September 1905, in Warmensteinach – 6 May 1989, in Karlsruhe) was a German physicist and astronomer.
Thüring studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1928, under Alexander Wilkens.
[1] Wilkens was a professor of astronomy and director of the Munich Observatory, which was part of the University.
[2][3][4][5][6] During the reign of Adolf Hitler, Thüring was a proponent of Deutsche Physik, as were the two Nobel Prize-winning physicists Johannes Stark and Philipp Lenard; Deutsche Physik, was anti-Semitic and had a bias against theoretical physics, especially quantum mechanics.
[7][8] Thüring was an opponent of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.