Talk:Peter Grünberg

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1 Jewish family?
2 Picture?
3 Spelling of Title
4 His father "Grünberg Theodor † 27.11.1945"

[edit] Jewish family?

I erased the passus "Jewish family", because there is no confirmation of this fact. Peter Grünberg was raised catolic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.94.122.221 (talk) 08:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

But here i have managed to find a source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.228.119.84 (talk) 17:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The source is clearly unreliable; it is merely an edited version of the Wikipedia article itself, but with terms like "German" changed to "Jewish German," etc., leading to the ridiculous statement: "like the rest of the German-speaking Jewish majority of Pilsen, he [Peter Grünberg] had been expelled with the rest of his family by the Czech government by means of the Benes decrees after World War II." Needless to say, the Jews were never a majority of the population of Pilsen (at most 2%-3% of the pre-war population), and there were hardly any Jews left alive there after WWII. These few survivors were not expelled to Germany with the ethnic German population of Pilsen. The name "Grinberg" (Grünberg's original surname), although virtually always Jewish in Central Europe, is also found amongst ethnic Germans in Russia (Grünberg's father's birthplace). (Since there is no equivalent for the German "ü" in Russian, the German name "Grünberg" is frequently rendered as "Grinberg," i.e., the "ü" is replaced by the Cyrillic equivalent for "i" by both ethnic Germans and Jews in Russia.) Jinfo 04:08, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture?

Does anyone have a free picture of him we could use here? henrik•talk 18:21, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I think the picture that is currently used is a rather bad one. We should replace it with something more appropriate. Werni2 13:20, 9 May 2008)

Please stop removing the photo just because it does not please you. I am convinced that it was you, as e.g. User talk:88.65.21.47, who removed the photo already twice in the last weeks. -- Matthead Discuß 22:14, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling of Title

Just wanted to point out that many media reports spell his name as "Gruenberg", rather than "Grünberg". (A few are spelling it "Grunberg", as well). In fact, in google news searches, the alternative spelling seems to be more prevelant:

"Gruenberg" only: 1,200 (including Reuters, AP, USA Today, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, Sydney Morning Herald)
"Grünberg" only: 80 (including International Herald Tribune, Spiegel (English), American Institute of Physics, The Times)
"Grunberg" only: 65 (including BBC, China's People's Daily, and UPI)

Although there are obvious reasons for keeping the article at "Grünberg" (this is the given name, at least in German, it's the name on Nobel press release, and on at least one English-language academic paper [1]) , the above provides evidence that the most typical rendering in English is the common transliteration "Gruenberg". Should we consider changing the article title? Erudy 22:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Niemals! Cjs2111 01:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

The MoS mostly suggests otherwise. is exactly what redirects were created for - make sure there are appropriate redirects from the other spellings and the problem is solved.Peter Gruenberg already existed, and I added Peter Grunberg. henrik•talk 06:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I prefer original names in the articles, so Grünberg is the choice for me. ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 09:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)