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16The Birth of Particle Physics by Laurie M. Brown; Lillian Hoddeson (review)Isis 76 101-102. 1985.
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13Gesammelte Werke/Collected Works by Werner Heisenberg; W. Blum; H.-P. Dürr; H. Rechenberg (review)Isis 82 159-160. 1991.
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71Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-23 DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9495-z Authors S. S. Schweber, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Alex Wellerstein, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Ethan Pollock, Department of History, Box N, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA Barton J. Bernstein, History Department, Buildin…Read more
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14Unifying EinsteinJeroen van Dongen. Einstein's Unification. x + 213 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (review)Isis 102 (4): 739-742. 2011.
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14The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight Zone of the Scientific Age. John Horgan (review)Isis 91 (1): 177-179. 2000.
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6Gesammelte Werke/Collected WorksWerner Heisenberg W. Blum H.-P. Dürr H. RechenbergIsis 82 (1): 159-160. 1991.
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13Reminiscences about a Great Physicist: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. Behram N. Kursunoglu, Eugene P. WignerIsis 79 (2): 356-357. 1988.
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20John Herschel and Charles Darwin: A study in parallel livesJournal of the History of Biology 22 (1). 1989.
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9The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight Zone of the Scientific Age by John Horgan (review)Isis 91 177-179. 2000.
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18Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (review)Isis 99 879-882. 2008.
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20Michael Eckert has written a remarkable biography of Arnold Sommerfeld , the “off-scale” theoretical physicist who made his Seminar at the University of Munich the outstanding school of theoretical physics of the first third of the twentieth century. Sommerfeld was the teacher and mentor of a large number of exceptional theoretical physicists who studied with him either as doctoral or post-doctoral studentsSee the Wikipedia entry for Arnold Sommerfeld for a complete listing of all his students b…Read more
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16Review: Early Victorian Science: "Science in Culture" (review)Journal of the History of Biology 13 (1). 1980.
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19Einstein and Oppenheimer: Interactions and IntersectionsScience in Context 19 (4): 513-559. 2006.ArgumentThe paper is an exploration of the interactions between Einstein and Oppenheimer. It highlights the sharp differences in Einstein's and Oppenheimer's approach to physics, in their presentation of self as iconic figures, and in their relation to the communities they considered themselves part of. To understand their differing approaches to physics it briefly reviews the kinds of unifications that took place in physics during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century and points to the …Read more
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20J. Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus UnboundScience in Context 16 (1-2): 219-242. 2003.ArgumentJ. Robert Oppenheimer was a complex person. His work in physics during the 1930s, at Los Alamos during the 1940s, and as governmental advisor in the immediate postwar period, gave him a deep sense of connection with communities that had distinctive purposes. But he found it difficult to conceive an overall creative vision for himself or to devise a compelling objective for the community he belonged to if one had not been formulated at the time he assumed its leadership. I analyze the rea…Read more
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11Albert Einstein and the founding of Brandeis UniversityIn A. Ashtekar (ed.), Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics, . pp. 615--640. 2003.
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