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THE death occurred recently of Prof. Bernhard Bavink, an eminent German teacher of natural philosophy. His great work, "Ergebnisse und Probleme der exakten Naturwissenschaften", is internationally known. His last book, published in 1947, is entitled "Was ist Wahrheit in den exakten Natur-wissenschaften?". He was one of the few men of science who never lost sight of the ‘‘whole while commanding very specialized knowledge of the sciences. His publications and lectures always attempted to bridge the gulf between modern, technically informed science and the sphere of faith and ethics and all the higher spiritual values. Bavink was born on June 30, 1879, in East Friesland. His last years were sad. A son of seventeen was called up towards the end of the War and was killed. An older son had been a prisoner of war in the U.S.S.R. and died from typhoid fever when he was just expected to go home. In the same year a daughter, lacking the necessary care and food, died of tuberculosis. At the time of his death, Prof. Bavink was on the point of taking a chair at the Stuttgart Technical College.
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Prof. B. Bavink. Nature 161, 122 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161122a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161122a0