Grete Hermann
Quantum mechanics has therefore not contradicted the law of causality at all, but has clarified it and has removed from it other principles which are not necessarily connected to it.In June 1936, Hermann was awarded the Richard Avenarius prize together with Eduard May and Th.However, she published a critique of John von Neumann's 1932 proof from his book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, that was widely claimed to show that such a theory was impossible.Hermann's work on this subject went unnoticed by the physics community until it was independently discovered and published by John Stewart Bell in 1966, and her earlier discovery was pointed out by Max Jammer in 1974.[14] Her prescience was justified by events: two years later the British government invoked its hitherto obscure 1939 Defence Regulation 18B, identifying several thousand refugees who had fled Germany for reasons of politics or race as enemy aliens and placing them in internment camps.[16] Starting in 1947 she was one of those contributing behind the scenes to the Bad Godesberg Programme, prepared under the leadership of her longstanding ISK comrade Willi Eichler, and issued in 1959, which provided a detailed modernising platform that carried the party into government in the 1960s.