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Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks

Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks Badino M. ,  Na…

The history of Temperature

Temperature – also temperament in the early days – measures hot and cold and the word is, of cours…

‘‘A dedicated missionary’’. Charles Galton Darwin and the new quantum mechanics in Britain

Jaume Navarro  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmanstrasse 22, 14195 Berlin…

1905 The miracle year of Einstein

Historians still call the year 1905 the annus mirabilis , the miracle year because in that year Ei…

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE T4 RADIATION LAW

John Crepeau  University of Idaho Department of Mechanical Engineering PO Box 440902 Moscow, …

Annalen der Physik – a brief history of a living legend

Guido W. Fuchs  Just in time for its 222 anniversary the journal Annalen der Physik will experie…

The Development of Elementary Quantum Theory from 1900 to 1927

Herbert Capellmann  Potsdam, and Inst. Theor. Physik, RWTH Aachen1 Abstract  Planck’s in…

Conference: The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis, March 2007

Paul Forman’s article “Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927” (Forman 1971) per…

History of quantum mechanics (from wikipedia)

The  history of  quantum mechanics  is a fundamental part of the  history of modern physics . Qua…

History of physics (from wikipedia)

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." –  Isaac New…

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