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Volume 39 ( 2009)
Volume 39:2 (Spring 2009)
BENJAMIN C. ZULUETA
Master of the Master Gland: Choh Hao Li, the University
of California, and Science, Migration, and Race		 129
ALISON KRAFT
Manhattan Transfer: Lethal Radiation, Bone Marrow Transplantation,
and the Birth of Stem Cell Biology, ca. 1942-1961		 171
TOM SCHEIDING
Paying for Knowledge One Page at a Time: The Author
Fee in Physics in Twentieth-Century America		 219
Book Reviews
SUSAN LINDEE
Transubstantiation in Science 248
MARK HARRISON
After Empire: Searching for a New Synthesis 258
 
Volume 39:1 (Winter 2009)
EVELYN FOX KELLER
Organisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms: A History
of Self-Organization, Part Two. Complexity, Emergence,
and Stable Attractors		 1
BUHM SOON PARK
Between Accuracy and Manageability: Computational Imperatives
in Quantum Chemistry		 32
CRISTINA OLIVOTTO
The G-Stack Collaboration (1954): An Experiment of Transition 63
Book Reviews
MARY JO NYE
Scientific Families: Biographies and "Labographies" in the History
of Science		 104
NANCY ANDERSON
Eye and Image: Looking at a Visual Studies of Science 115
Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from HSTM Editors
 
Volume 38 (2008)
Volume 38:4 (Fall 2008)  
CATHERINE WESTFALL  
Introduction to the Special Issue: Surviving the Squeeze:
National Laboratories in the 1970s and 1980s		 475
ROBERT W. SEIDEL  
From Factory to Farm: Disseminaion of Computing
in High-Energy Physics		 479
MARK BODNARCZUK AND LILLIAN HODDESON  
Megascience in Particle Physics: The Birth
of an Experiment String at Fermilab		 508
ROBERT P. CREASE  
Recombinant Science: The Birth of the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)		 535
CATHERINE WESTFALL  
Retooling for the Future: Launching the Advanced Light
Source at Lawrence's Laboratory, 1980-1986		 569
Book Reviews  
ANN JOHNSON  
What if We Wrote the History of Science from the
Perspective of Applied Science?		 610
PETER DEAR  
The Inwardness of Science 621


Volume 38:3 (Summer 2008)
JOAN LISA BROMBERG  
New Instruments and the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics 325
DANIELA MONALDI  
The Indirect Observation of the Decay of Mesotrons:
Italian Experiments on Cosmic Radiation, 1937-1943		 353
EDWARD JONES-IMHOTEP  
Icons and Electronics 405
Book Reviews  
CYRUS C.M. MODY  
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Nuclear Reactor, the Computer, Ham Radio, and Recombinant DNA 451
EDNA SUAREZ-DIAZ  
Yes! There's Still a Lot to Learn about the History
of Molecular Biology		 463
   
Volume 38:2 (Spring 2008)
STUART W. LESLIE
"A Different Kind of Beauty": Scientific and Architectural Style
in I.M. Pei's Mesa Laboratory and Louis Kahn's Salk Institute		 173
R. STEVEN TURNER
Potato Agriculture, Late Blight Science,
and the Molecularization of Plant Pathology		 223
IOANNA SEMENDEFERI
Legitimating a Nuclear Critic:
John Gofman, Radiation Safety, and Cancer Risks		 259
Book Reviews
BRUNO J. STRASSER
Magic Bullets and Wonder Pills:
Making Drugs and Diseases in the Twentieth Century		 303
PAMELA O. LONG
Plants and Animals in History:
The Study of Nature in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe		 313
Volume 38:1 (Winter 2008)
THE EDITORS
Foreword 1
JOHN KRIGE

The Peaceful Atom as Political Weapon:
Euratom and American Foreign Policy in the Late 1950s

 5
EVELYN FOX KELLER
Oragnisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms:
A History of Self-Organization, Part One		 45
ROBERT E. KOHLER
Plants and Pigeonholes:
Classification as a Practice in American Ecology		 77
NAOMI ORESKES, ERIK M. CONWAY, AND MATTHEW SHINDELL
From Chicken Little to Dr. Pangloss: William Nierenberg, Global Warming, and the Social Deconstruction of Scientific Knowledge 109
Book Reviews
MATTHEW STANLEY  
Einstein: Essence or Explanation? 153
CHARLES C. GILLISPIE  
Atop Mont Blanc 163

HSPS

Volume 37 (2006-2007)
Volume 37 Supplement (2007)
THE EDITORS
Foreword 1
ANJA SKAAR JACOBSEN
Léon Rosenfeld’s Marxist defense of complementarity 3
DOOGAB YI
The coming of reversibility: The discovery of DNA repair between the atomic age and the information age 35
JEROEN VAN DONGEN
Emil Rupp, Albert Einstein, and the canal ray experiments on wave-particle duality: Scientific fraud and theoretical bias 73
JEROEN VAN DONGEN
The interpretation of the Einstein-Rupp experiments and their influence on the history of quantum mechanics 121
STEPHANIE C. YOUNG
Selected bibliography 133
Volume 37, Part 2 (2007)
J.L. HEILBRON
Swansong 185
LEWIS PYENSON
Foreword: Russell McCormmach 189
STEPHEN G. BRUSH
How ideas became knowledge: The light-quantum hypothesis 1905–1935 205
DAVID C. CASSIDY
Oppenheimer’s first paper: Molecular band spectra and a professional style 247
PAUL FORMAN
How Lewis Mumford saw science, and art, and himself 271
KARL HUFBAUER
Landau’s youthful sallies into stellar theory: Their origins, claims, and receptions 337
KENKICHIRO KOIZUMI
Technology at a crossroads: The Fifth Generation Computer Project in Japan 355
HELGE S. KRAGH
Cosmology and the entropic creation argument 369
JOHN G. MCEVOY
Modernism, postmodernism, and the historiography of science 383
MARY JO NYE
Historical sources of science-as-social practice: Michael Polanyi’s Berlin 409
SPENCER R. WEART
Money for Keeling: Monitoring CO2 levels 435
FINN AASERUD
Russell McCormmach as a teacher 453
ROBERT MARC FRIEDMAN
Tolerance and integrity at Johns Hopkins 463
JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE AND PETER HARMAN
Russell McCormmach as a colleague 475
STEPHANIE C. YOUNG
Selected bibliography 479
Volume 37, Part 1 (2006)
MATTHIAS DÖRRIES AND CHRISTOPHE MASUTTI
Introduction: Changing climate—Modeling climate 1
JAMES RODGER FLEMING
The pathological history of weather and climate modification: Three cycles of promise and hype 3
CHRISTOPHE MASUTTI
Frederic Clements, climatology, and conservation in the 1930s 27
MATTHIAS HEYMAN
Modeling reality: Practice, knowledge, and uncertainty in atmospheric transport simulation 49
MATTHIAS DÖRRIES
In the public eye: Volcanology and climate change studies in the 20th century 87
ERIK M. CONWAY
Drowning in data: Satellite oceanography and information overload in the earth sciences 127
SIMONE TURCHETTI
The invisible businessman: Nuclear physics, patenting practices, and trading activities in the 1930s 153
STEPHANIE C. YOUNG
Selected bibliography 173

 

Volume 36 (2005-2006)
Volume 36, Part 2 (2006)
R.W. HOME, ANA RIBEIRO DE ANDRADE and CARLOS GALLES
Introduction 209
R.W. HOME
The rush to accelerate: Early stages in nuclear physics research in Australia 213
DONG-WON KIM
Yoshio Nishina and two cyclotrons 243
MORRIS F. LOW
Accelerators and politics in postwar Japan 275
MARIA DE LA PAZ RAMOS LARA
Particle accelerators in Mexico 297
ANA M. RIBEIRO DE ANDRADE AND R.P.A. MUNIZ
The quest for the Brazilian sychrocyclotron 311
MARCELO BAUMANN BURGOS
Brazilian synchrocyclotron light 329
DIEGO H. DE MENDOZA AND ANA MARIA VARA
Political storms, financial uncertainties, and dreams of "big science": The construction of a heavy ion accelerator in Argentina 343
PATRICK COFFEY
Chemical free energies and the third law of thermodynamics 365
STEPHANIE C. YOUNG
Selected bibliography 397
Volume 36, Part 1 (2005)
OLIVAL FREIRE
Science and exile: David Bohm, the cold war, and a new interpretation of quantum mechanics 1
SEAN F. JOHNSTON
From white elephant to Nobel Prize: Dennis Gabor's wavefront reconstruction 35
JOHN KRIGE
The politics of phosphorus-32: A cold war fable based on fact 71
BENOIT LELONG
Ions, electrometers, and physical constants: Paul Langevin's laboratory work on gas discharges, 1896-1903 93
ANNETTE LYKKNES, LISE KVITTINGEN, AND ANNE KRISTINE BØRRESEN
Ellen Gleditsch: Duty and responsibility in a research and teaching career, 1916-1946 133
SHAUL KATZIR
On "the electromagnetic worldview": A comment on an article by Suman Seth 189
SUMAN SETH
Response to Shaul Katzir: "On the electromagnetic worldview" 193
SUSAN M. GROPPI
Selected Bibliography 197

 

Volume 35 (2004-2005)
Volume 35, Part 2 (2005)
KENNETH L. CANEVA
'Discovery' as a site for the collective construction of scientific knowledge 175
ALBERTO G. DE GREGORIO
Neutron physics in the early 1930s 293
R. STEVEN TURNER
After the famine: Plant pathology, Phytophthora infestans , and the late blight of potatoes, 1845-1960 341
SUSAN M. GROPPI
Selected Bibliography 371
Volume 35, Part 1 (2004)
DAVID CAHAN
Helmholtz and the shaping of the American physics elite in the Gilded Age 1
SHAUL KATZIR
The emergence of the principle of symmetry in physics 35
SUMAN SETH
Quantum theory and the electromagnetic world-view 67
ERIC VETTEL
The protean nature of Stanford University's biological sciences, 1946-1972 95
ROLAND WITTJE
A proton accelerator in Trondheim in the 1930s 115
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
On a recent article by Seiya Abiko 153
SEIYA ABIKO
Reply to Olivier Darrigol 157
SUSAN M. GROPPI
Selected Bibliography 161

 

Volume 34 (2003-2004)
Volume 34, Part 2 (2004)
UTE DEICHMANN
Early responses to Avery et al.'s paper on DNA as hereditary material 207
IGOR S. DMITRIEV
Scientific discovery in statu nascendi : The case of Dmitrii Mendeleev's Periodic Law 233
FREDERIC LAWRENCE HOLMES
Investigative and pedagogical styles in French chemistry at the end of the seventeenth century 277
DANIAN HU
Organized criticism of Einstein and relativity in China, 1968-1976 311
W. PATRICK McCRAY
Project Vista, Caltech, and the dilemmas of Lee DuBridge 339
LUCIA ORLANDO
The SIRIO satellite, 1968-1977: Between scientific engagement and managerial inexperience 371
SUSAN M. GROPPI
Selected bibliography 399
Volume 34, Part 1 (2003)
MICHAEL S. GOODMAN
Grandfather of the hydrogen bomb?: Anglo-American intelligence and Klaus Fuchs 1
SHIZUE HINOKAWA
A comparative study of cyclotron development at Cambridge and Liverpool in the 1930s 23
FREDERIC LAWRENCE HOLMES
Chemistry in the Acadêmie Royale des Sciences 41
SHAUL KATZIR
From explanation to description: Molecular and phenomenological theories of piezoelectricity 69
DAVID MUNNS
If we build it, who will come? Radio astronomy and the limitations of "national" laboratories in Cold War America 95
ROBERT A. MYERS AND RICHARD W. DIXON
Who invented the laser: an analysis of the early patents 115
HALLAM STEVENS
Fundamental physics and its justifications, 1945-1993 151
SUSAN M. GROPPI
Selected Bibliography 199

 

Volume 33 (2002-2003)
Volume 33, Part 2 (2003)
SEIYA ABIKO
On Einstein's distrust of the electromagnetic theory: The origin of the light-velocity postulate 193
JOSEPH-JAMES AHERN
"We had the hose turned on us!": Ross Gunn and the Naval Research Laboratory's early research into nuclear propulsion, 1939-1946 217
LAURA A. BRUNO
The bequest of the nuclear battlefield: Science, nature, and the atom during the first decade of the Cold War 237
H.M. COLLINS
LIGO becomes big science 261
ARNE SCHIRRMACHER
Experimenting theory: The proofs of Kirchhoff's radiation law before and after Planck 299
STEPHAN L. WOLFF
Physicists in the "Krieg der Geister": Wilhelm Wien's "Proclamation" 337
CHEN-PANG YEANG
The study of long-distance radio-wave propagation, 1900-1919 369
Volume 33, Part 1 (2002)
GUEST EDITORS
Foreword 1
JOSÉ M. SÁNCHEZ-RON
International relations in Spanish physics from 1900 to the Cold War 3
ALEXIS DE GREIFF
The tale of two peripheries: The creation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste 33
KENJI ITO
Values of "pure science": Nishina Yoshio's wartime discourse between nationalism and physics, 1940-1945 61
ABHA SUR
Scientism and social justice: Meghnad Saha's critique of the state of science in India 87
DONG-WON KIM
The conflict between the image and role of physics in South Korea 107
DAVID KAISER
Cold War requisitions, scientific manpower, and the production of American physicists after World War II 131
ALEXEI KOJEVNIKOV
David Bohm and collective movement 161

 

Volume 32 (2001-2002)
Volume 32, Part 2 (2002)
DEBORAH R. COEN
Scientists' errors, nature's fluctuations, and the law of radioactive decay, 1899-1926 179
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
Turbulence in 19th-century hydrodynamics 207
MICHAEL D. GORDIN
The organic roots of Mendeleev's periodic law 263
EDWARD JURKOWITZ
Helmholtz and the liberal unification of science 291
BRITTA SCHEIDELER
The scientist as moral authority: Albert Einstein between elitism and democracy, 1914-1933 319
GILBERT SHAMA AND JONATHAN REINARZ
Allied intelligence reports on wartime German penicillin research and production 347
CATHERINE WESTFALL
A tale of two more laboratories: Readying for research at Fermilab and Jefferson Laboratory 369
KURT W. BEYER
Selected bibliography 409
Volume 32, Part 1 (2001)
CATHERINE WESTFALL
Foreword 1
ROBERT W. SMITH
Introduction 3
KEITH R. BENSON
Summer Camp, Seaside Station, and Marine Laboratory: Marine biology and its institutional identity 11
STEPHANE CASTONGUAY
The emergence of research specialties in economic entomology in Canadian government laboratories after World War II 19
ROBERT P. CREASE
Anxious history: The High Flux Beam Reactor and Brookhaven National Laboratory 41
JOHN KRIGE
Felix Bloch and the creation of a "scientific spirit" at CERN 57
STUART W. LESLIE
Blue collar science: Bringing the transistor to life in the Lehigh Valley 71
ULF VON RAUCHHAUPT
Colorful clouds and unruly rockets: Early research programs at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics 115
MICHAEL RIORDAN
A tale of two cultures: Building the Superconducting Super Collider, 1988-1993 125
ROBERT W. SEIDEL
The national laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission in the early Cold War 145
CATHERINE WESTFALL
Collaborating together: The stories of TPC, UA1, CDF, and CLAS 163

 

Volume 31 (2000-2001)
Volume 31, Part 2 (2001)
GARLAND E. ALLEN
The biological basis of crime: An historical and methodological study 183
BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT
The construction of a discipline: Materials science in the United States 223
HASOK CHANG
Spirit, air, and quicksilver: The search for the "real" scale of temperature 249
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
God, waterwheels, and molecules: Saint-Venant's anticipation of energy conservation 285
ELIZABETH PARIS
Lords of the ring: The fight to build the first U.S. electron-positron collider 355
KURT W. BEYER
Selected bibliography 381
Volume 31, Part 1 (2000)
SEIYA ABIKO
Einstein's Kyoto address: "How I created the theory of relativity" 1
ELISABETH CRAWFORD
German scientists and Hitler's vendetta against the Nobel prizes 37
DAVID H. DEVORKIN
Who speaks for astronomy? How astronomers responded to government funding after World War II 55
TAL GOLAN
Blood will out: Distinguishing humans from animals and scientists from charlatans in the 19th-century American courtroom 93
GUILIO MALTESE
The late entrance of relativity into Italian scientific community (1906-1930) 125
KURT BEYER
Selected bibliography 175

 

Volume 30 (1999-2000)
Volume 30, Part 2 (2000)
JAMES ROGER FLEMING
Foreword 307
BARTON HACKER
Military patronage and the geophysical science in the United States: An introduction 309
JAMES RODGER FLEMING
Storms, strikes, and surveillance: The U.S. Army Signal Office, 1861-1891 315
MARTIN LEVITT
The development and politicization of the American helium industry, 1917-1940 333
RONALD RAINGER
Science at the crossroads: The Navy, Bikini Atoll, and American oceanography in the 1940s 349
NAOMI ORESKES
Laissez-tomber: Military patronage and women's work in mid-20th-century oceanography 373
DEBORAH WALKER
From Tallahassee to Timbuktu: Cold War efforts to measure intercontinental distances 393
NILS ROLL-HANSEN
The application of complementarity to biology: From Niels Bohr to Max Delbrück 415
LEO B. SLATER
Industry and academy: The synthesis of steroids 443
PETER J. WESTWICK
Selected bibliography 481
Volume 30, Part 1 (1999)
CATHRYN CARSON, ETHAN POLLOCK,
PETER WESTWICK, JAMES H. WILLIAMS
Editors' foreword i
FINN AASERUD
The scientist and the statesman: Niels Bohr's political crusade during World War II 1
JAMES H. WILLIAMS
Fang Lizhi's big bang: A physicist and the state in China 49
H. LYMAN MILLER
Xu Liangying and He Zuoxiu: Divergent responses to physics and politics in the post-Mao period 89
CATHRYN CARSON
New models for science in politics: Heisenberg in West Germany 115
DAVID HOLLOWAY
Physics, the state, and civil society in the Soviet Union 173
MORRIS LOW
Science and civil society in Japan: Physicists as public men and policymakers 193
ALEXEI KOJEVNIKOV
Dialogues about knowledge and power in totalitarian political culture 227
ZUOYUE WANG
U.S.-China scientific exchange: A case study of state-sponsored scientific internationalism during the Cold War and beyond 249
JESSICA WANG
Merton's shadow: Perspectives on science and democracy since 1940 279

 

Volume 29 (1998-1999)
Volume 29, Part 2 (1999)
ROBERT FOX AND ANNA GUAGNINI
Laboratories, workshops, and sites. Concepts and practices of research in industrial Europe, 1800-1914. 191
Chapter 3 193
Chapter 4 251
Conclusion 291
ALEXEI KOJEVNIKOV
Freedom, collectivism, and quasiparticles: Social metaphors in quantum physics 295
JOHN KRIGE
The Ford Foundation, European physics, and the Cold War 333
ANA SIMOES AND KOSTAS GAVROGLU
Quantum chemistry qua applied mathematics. The contributions of Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-1974) 363
Volume 29, Part 1 (1998)
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
From organ pipes to atmospheric motions: Helmholtz on fluid mechanics 1
ROBERT FOX AND ANNA GUAGNINI
Laboratories, workshops, and sites. Concepts and practices of research in Industrial Europe, 1800-1914. 55
Contents 57
List of Illustrations 59
Preface 61
Introduction 63
Chapter 1 69
Chapter 2 99
LUCIDA ORLANDO
Physics in the 1930s: Jewish physicists' contributions to the realization of the "new tasks" of physics in Italy 141
PETER J. WESTWICK
Selected bibliography 183

 

Volume 28 (1997-1998)
Volume 28, Part 2 (1998)
JON AGAR AND BRIAN BALMER
British scientists and the Cold War: The Defence Research Policy Committee and information networks, 1947-1963 209
JORDI CAT
The physicists' debates on unification in physics at the end of the 20th century 253
JESSICA RISKIN
Poor Richard's Leyden Jar: Electricity and economy in Franklinist France 301
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
Toward a new topology of scientific practice 337
PETER J. WESTWICK
Selected bibliography 353
Volume 28, Part 1 (1997)
KENNETH L. CANEVA
Colding, Ørsted, and the meanings of force 1
ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG
Visual representation and post-constructivist history of science 139
PETRA WERNER
Learning from an adversary? Warburg against Wieland 173
PETER J. WESTWICK
Selected bibliography 197

 

Volume 27 (1996-1997)
Volume 27, Part 2 (1997)
VICTOR YA FRENKEL
Yakov Ilich Frenkel: Sketches toward a civic portrait 197
DAVID HOUNSHELL
The Cold War, RAND, and the generation of knowledge, 1946-1962 237
DANIEL J. KEVLES
Big Science and big politics in the United States: Reflections on the death of the SSC and the life of the Human Genome Project 269
DAVID MUNNS
Linear accelerators, radio astronomy, and Australia's search for international prestige, 1944-1948 299
SPENCER R. WEART
Global warming, Cold War, and the evolution of research plans 319
PETER J. WESTWICK
Selected bibliography 357
Volume 27, Part 1 (1996)
ANGELA N.H. CREAGER AND JEAN-PAUL GAUDILLIÈRE
Meanings in search of experiments and vice-versa: The invention of allosteric regulation in Paris and Berkeley (1959-1968) 1
HELGE KRAGH AND STEPHEN J. WEININGER
Sooner silence than confusion: The tortuous entry of entropy into chemistry 91
PETER J. WESTWICK
"Abraded from several corners:" Medical physics and biophysics at Berkeley 131
TERESA HOPPER
Essay review: Recent books on Nazism and science 163
PETER J. WESTWICK
Selected bibliography 177

 

Volume 26 (1995-1996)
Volume 26, Part 2 (1996)
DAVID CASSIDY
Controlling German science, II: Bizonal occupation and the Struggle over West German science policy, 1946-1949 197
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
The electrodynamic origins of relativity theory 241
EVELYN FOX KELLER
Drosophila embryos as transitional objects: The work of Donald Poulson and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 313
ANA MILLÁN GASCA
Mathematical theories versus biological facts: A debate on mathematical population dynamics in the 1930s 347
Volume 26, Part 1 (1995)
MATTHIAS DÖRRIES
Heinrich Kayser as philologist of physics 1
CHRISTOPH LÉCUYER
MIT, Progressive reform, and "industrial service," 1890-1920 35
PETER J. RAMBERG
Arthur Michael's critique of stereochemistry, 1887-1899 89
JESSICA WANG
Liberals, the progressive left, and the political economy of postwar American science: The National Science Foundation debate revisited 139
PNINA ABIR-AM
"New" trends in the history of molecular biology 167

 

Volume 25 (1994-1995)
Volume 25, Part 2 (1995)
FINN AASERUD
Sputnik and the "Princeton three:" The national security laboratory that was not to be 185
CAROL GRUBER
The overhead system in government-sponsored academic science: Origins and early development 241
GYEONG SOON IM
The formation and development of the Ramsauer effect 269
NATHAN REINGOLD
Choosing the future: The U.S. research community, 1944-1946 301
ZUOYUE WANG
The politics of big science in the Cold War: PSAC and the funding of SLAC 329
ANGELA N. CREAGER
In the fly room 357
HENRIKA KUKLICK
Mind over matter? 361
ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG
Selected bibliography 379
Volume 25, Part 1 (1994)
LAURIE M. BROWN AND HELMUT RECHENBERG
Field theories of nuclear forces in the 1930s :
The Fermi-Field theory 1
LOREN BUTLER
Robert S. Mulliken and the politics of science and scientists, 1939-1946 25
KOSTAS GAVROGLU AND ANA SIMOES
The Americans, the Germans and the beginnings of quantum chemistry 47
DANIEL KEVLES
Ananda Chakrabarty wins a patent: Biotechnology, law, and society, 1972-1980 111
FREDERIK NEBEKER
Experimental style in high-energy physics: The discovery of the upsilon particle 137
THOMAS SODERQVIST
The architecture of a biographical pathway 165
ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG
Selected bibliography 177

 

Volume 24 (1993-1994)
Volume 24, Part 2 (1994)
DAVID CASSIDY
Controlling German science, I: U.S. and Allied forces in Germany, 1945-1947 197
MICHAEL CHAYUT
From Berlin to Jerusalem: Ladislaus Farkas and the founding of physical chemistry in Israel 237
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
The electron theories of Larmor and Lorentz: A comparative study 265
KARL HUFBAUER
Artificial eclipses: Bernard Lyot and the coronagraph, 1929-1939 337
MARK WALKER
Science, National Socialism, and the longue durée 395
ALICE WALTERS
Public science 403
ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG
Selected bibliography 407
Volume 24, Part 1 (1993)
OLGA AMSTERDAMSKA
From pneumonia to DNA: The research career of Oswald T. Avery 1
MARIA GRAZIA IANNIELLO
Elastic Nachwirkung, Brownian motion and the tide against determinism: 1835-1920 41
ADRIENNE KOLB AND LILLIAN HODDESON
The mirage of the "world accelerator for world peace" and the origins of the SSC, 1953-1983 101
CHUNGLIN KWA
Modeling the grasslands 125
TERRY SHINN
Bellevue grand électroaimant, 1900-1940 :
Birth of a research-technology community 157
ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG
Selected bibliography 189
Volume 24, Part 1 Supplement (1993)
J.L. HEILBRON
Weighing imponderables and other quantitative science around 1800  

 

Volume 23 (1992-1993)
Volume 23, Part 2 (1993)
MICHAEL CHAYUT
New sites for scientific change: Paul Flory's initiation into polymer chemistry 193
KLAUS HENTSCHEL
The discovery of the redshift of solar Fraunhofer lines by Rowland and Jewell in Baltimore around 1890 219
LILLIAN HODDESON
The discovery of spontaneous fission in plutonium during World War II 279
DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI
The emergence of reference frames and the transformation of mechanics in the Enlightenment 301
NICOLAS RASMUSSEN
Freund's adjuvant and the realization of questions in postwar immunology 337
ROBIN RIDER
Selected bibliography 367
Volume 23, Part 1 (1992)
ALEXI ASSMUS
The Americanization of molecular physics 1
CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE
Science and secret weapons development in Revolutionary France, 1792-1804: A documentary history 35
CHRISTOPHE LECUYER
The making of a science based technological university: Karl Compton, James Killian, and the reform of MIT, 1930-1957 153
GLENN BUGOS
The organization of the quest for certainty 181

 

Volume 22 (1991-1992)
Volume 22, Part 2 (1992)
ALEXI ASSMUS
The molecular tradition in early quantum theory 209
STUART M. FEFFER
Atoms, cancer, and politics: Supporting atomic science at the University of Chicago, 1944-1950 233
JACK MORRELL
Research in physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 1919-1939 263
ALEXANDER RUEGER
Attitudes towards infinities: Responses to anomalies in quantum electrodynamics, 1927-1947 309
MARK WALKER
Physics and propaganda: Werner Heisenberg's foreign lectures under National Socialism 339
SKULI SIGURDSSON
17,000 reprints later: Description and analysis of the Vito Volterra Reprint Collection 391
ROBIN E. RIDER
Selected bibliography 399
Volume 22, Part 1 (1991)
SEIYA ABIKO
On the chemico-thermal origins of special relativity 1
MATTHIAS DÖRRIES
Prior history and aftereffects: Hysteresis and Nachwirkung in l9th-century physics 25
J.L. HEILBRON
The contributions of Bologna to Galvanism 57
ROBERT E. KOHLER
Systems of production: Drosophila, Neurospora, and biochemical genetics 87
ALEKSEI KOZHEVNIKOV
Piotr Kapitza and Stalin's government: A study in moral choice 131
M. DE MARIA, M.G. IANNIELLO, A. RUSSO
The discovery of cosmic rays: Rivalries and controversies between Europe and the United States 165
ROBIN E. RIDER
Selected bibliography 193

 

Volume 21 (1990-1991)
Volume 21, Part 2 (1991)
LAURIE M. BROWN AND TIAN YU CAO
Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry: Its rediscovery and integration into quantum field theory 211
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theory, II: Early symptoma of indistinguishability and holism 237
GREGORY A. GOOD
The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute, and National Socialism in the 1930s 299
KELD NIELSEN
Another kind of light: The work of T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe, Part 2 317
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 399
Volume 21, Part 1 (1990)
BRUNO CARAZZA AND HELGE KRAGH
Augusto Righi's magnetic rays: A failed research program in early 20th-century physics 1
MICHAEL ECKERT
Primacy doomed to failure: Heisenberg's role as scientific adviser for nuclear policy in the FRG 29
STUART LESLIE
Profit and loss: The military and MIT in the postwar era 59
ILANA LÖWY
Variances in meaning in discovery accounts: The case of contemporary biology 87
GIULIANO PANCALDI
Electricity and life. Volta's path to the battery 123
LEWIS PYENSON
Habits of mind: Geophysics at Shanghai and Algiers, 1920-1940 161
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 197

 

Volume 20 (1989-1990)
Volume 20, Part 2 (1990)
KOSTAS GAVROGLU
The reaction of the British physicists and chemists to van der Waals' early work and to the law of corresponding states 199
DAN KEVLES
Cold war and hot physics: Science, security, and the American state, 1945-1956 239
ERIC L. MILLS
Useful in many capacities. An early career in American physical oceanography 265
ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG
Edward Bowles and radio engineering at MIT, 1920-1940 313
S.S. SCHWEBER
The young John Clarke Slater and the development of quantum chemistry 339
Reviews and bibliographical essays
LEWIS PYENSON
Over the bounding main 407
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 423
Volume 20, Part 1 (1989)
GLENN E. BUGOS
Managing cooperative research and borderland science in the National Research Council, 1922-1942 1
STUART M. FEFFER
Arthur Schuster, J.J. Thomson, and the discovery of the electron 33
ROBERT MARC FRIEDMAN
Text, context, and quicksand: Method and understanding in studying the Nobel science prizes 63
GIORA HON
Franck and Hertz versus Townsend: A study of two types of experimental error 79
KELD NIELSEN
Another kind of light: The work of T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe. Part I 107
Reviews and bibliographic essays
NORRISS HETHERINGTON
The extraterrestrial life debate: A productive perspective 179
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 183

 

Volume 19 (1988-1989)
Volume 19, Part 2 (1989)
M. DE MARIA AND A. RUSSO
Cosmic ray romancing: The discovery of the latitude effect and the Compton-Millikan controversy 211
PETER GALISON AND BARTON BERNSTEIN
In any light: Scientists and the decision to build the Superbomb, 1942-1954 267
ROBERT PALTER
Some impressions of recent work on eighteenth-century science 349
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 403
Volume 19, Part 1 (1988)
WILLIAM H. CROPPER
James Joule's work in electrochemistry and the emergence of the first law of thermodynamics 1
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theory 17
MICHAEL ECKERT
Neutrons and politics: Maier-Leibnitz and the emergence of pile neutron research in the FRG 81
SILVANA GALDABINI AND GIUSEPPE GIULIANI
Physics in Italy between 1900 and 1940:
The universities, physicists, funds, and research 115
JOOP SCHOPMAN
Industrious science: Semiconductor research at the N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, 1930-1957 137
Reviews and bibliographic essays
DAVID CAHAN
Pride and prejudice in the history of physics: The German speaking world, 1740-1945 173
LARRY STEWART
Texts and contextualists: The hunting of Newtonianism 193
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 199

 

Volume 18 (1987-1988)
Volume 18, Part 2 (1988)
BARTON J. BERNSTEIN
Four physicists and the bomb: The early years 231
ISOBEL FALCONER
J.J. Thomson's work on positive rays, 1906-1914 265
NAOMI ORESKES
The rejection of continental drift 311
PIERRE QUÉDEC
Weiss' magneton: The sin of pride or a venial mistake 349
ALEXANDER RÜGER
Atomism from cosmology: Erwin Schrödinger's work on wave mechanics and space-time structure 377
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 403
Volume 18, Part 1 (1987)
DAVID DEVORKIN
Organizing for space research: The V-2 rocket panel 1
LILLIAN HODDESON
The first large-scale application of superconductivity: The Fermilab energy doubler, 1972-1983 25
STUART W. LESLIE
Playing the education game to win: The military and Interdisciplinary research at Stanford 55
ALLAN A. NEEDELL
Preparing for the space age: University-based research, 1946-1957 89
ROBERT W. SEIDEL
From glow to flow: A history of military laser research and development 111
PAUL FORMAN
Behind quantum electronics: National security as basis for physical research in the United States, 1940-1960 149

 

Volume 17 (1986-1987)
Volume 17, Part 2 (1987)
MICHAEL ECKERT
Propaganda in science: Sommerfeld and the spread of the electron theory of metals 191
FREDERIC L. HOLMES
The intake-output method of quantification in physiology 235
WALTER KAISER
Early theories of the electron gas 271
NATHAN REINGOLD
Vannevar Bush's new deal for research: or The triumph of the old order 299
Reviews and bibliographic essays
STEPHEN G. BRUSH
Whole Earth history 345
NORRISS S. HETHERINGTON
Toward the history of x-ray astronomy 357
TERRY SHINN
Failure or success? Interpretations of 20th century French physics 361
NORTON WISE
What did 19th century British physics owe to Cambridge? 363
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 369
Volume 17, Part 1 (1986)
TIMOTHY LENOIR
Models and instruments in the development of electrophysiology, 1845-1912 1
S.S. SCHWEBER
The empiricist temper regnant: theoretical physics in the United States 1920-1950 55
DANIEL SIEGEL
The origin of the displacement current 99
M. NORTON WISE AND CROSBIE SMITH
Measurement, work and industry in Lord Kelvin's Britain 147
Reviews and bibliographic essays
ROBERT W. SEIDEL
Nuclear physics under Rutherford at Cambridge 175
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 183

 

Volume 16 (1985-1986)
Volume 16, Part 2 (1986)
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
The origin of quantized matter waves 197
JOHN KRIGE AND DOMINIQUE PESTRE
The choice of CERN's first large bubble chambers for the proton synchrotron (1957-1958) 255
ARTURO RUSSO
Science and industry in Italy between the two world wars 281
ROGER H. STUEWER
Rutherford's satellite model of the nucleus 321
Reviews and bibliographic essays
TERRY SHINN
Failure or success? Interpretations of 20th century French physics 353
HENRY LOWOOD
Selected bibliography 371
Volume 16, Part 1 (1985)
PER F. DAHL
Superconductivity after World War I and circumstances surrounding the discovery of a state B=0 1
JOHN L. DAVIS
The influence of astronomy on the character of physics in mid-nineteenth century France 59
WILLEM D. HACKMANN
Sonar research and naval warfare 1914-1954: A case study of a twentieth-century science 83
BRUCE HUNT
Experimenting on the ether: Oliver J. Lodge and the great whirling machine 111
ROBERT W. SEIDEL
A home for big science: The Atomic Energy Commission's laboratory system 135
Reviews and bibliographic essays
DAVID CASSIDY
Understanding the history of special relativity 177

 

Volume 15 (1984-1985)
Volume 15, Part 2 (1985)
DAVID CAHAN
The industrial revolution in German physics, 1865-1914 1
HELGE KRAGH
The fine structure of hydrogen and the gross structure of the physics community, 1916-26 67
THEODORE S. FELDMAN
Applied mathematics and the quantification of experimental physics: The example of barometric hypsometry 127
Volume 15, Part 1 (1984)
PER F. DAHL
Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity: The Leyden years, 1911-1914 1
OLIVIER DARRIGOL
A history of the question: Can free electrons be polarized? 39
CARSTEN JENSEN
Two one-electron anomalies in the old quantum theory 81
ROBIN E. RIDER
Alarm and opportunity: Emigration of mathematicians and physicists to Britain and the United States, 1933-1945 107
ERI YAGI
Clausius's mathematical method and the mechanical theory of heat 177

 

Volume 14 (1983-1984)
Volume 14, Part 2 (1984)
JUDITH R. GOODSTEIN
Waves in the earth: Seismology comes to southern California 201
THOMAS S. KUHN
Revisiting Planck 231
JOHN NORTON
How Einstein found his field equations: 1912-1915 253
KRZYSZTOF SZYMBORSKI
The physics of impefect crystals-a social history 317
JERRY THOMAS
John Stuart Foster, McGill University, and the renascence of nuclear physics in Montreal, 1935-1950 357
Volume 14, Part 1 (1983)
JEFFREY CRELINSTEN
William Wallace Campbell and the "Einstein Problem": An observational astronomer confronts the theory of relativity 1
ALLAN A. NEEDELL
Nuclear reactors and the founding of Brookhaven National Laboratory 93
NADIA ROBOTTI
The spectrum of z Puppis and the historical evolution of empirical data 123
JOHN W. SERVOS
To explore the borderland: The foundation of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 147
Reviews and bibliographic essays
DAVID CASSIDY
Recent German perspectives on German technical education 187

 

Volume 13 (1982-1983)
Volume 13, Part 2 (1983)
ALLAN FRANKLIN
The discovery and acceptance of CP violation 207
JOHN GREENBERG
Geodesy in Paris in the 1730s and the Paduan connection 239
J.L. HEILBRON
The origins of the exclusion principle 261
EVAN M. MELHADO
Oxygen, phlogiston, and caloric: The case of Guyton 311
JOHN S. RIGDEN
Molecular beam experiments on the hydrogens during the 1930s 335
ROBERT W. SEIDEL
Accelerating science: The postwar transformation of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory 375
Reviews and bibliographical essays  
MARY JO NYE
Recent sources and problems in the history of French science 401
Volume 13, Part 1 (1982)
HENRY FRANKEL
The development, reception, and acceptance of the Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis 1
NORRISS S. HETHERINGTON
Philosophical values and observation in Edwin Hubble's choice of a model of the universe 41
HELGE KRAGH
Cosmo-physics in the thirties: Towards a history of Dirac cosmology 69
ARTHUR QUINN
Repulsive force in England, 1706-1744 109
R. STEVEN TURNER
Justus Liebig versus Prussian chemistry: Reflections on early institute-building in Germany 129
Reviews and bibliographical essays 163
JOE D. BURCHFIELD
The British Association and its historians 165
M. NORTON WISE
The Maxwell literature and British dynamical theory 175

 

Volume 12 (1981-1982)
Volume 12, Part 2 (1982)
BARTON J. BERNSTEIN
"In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer" 195
DAVID CAHAN
Werner Siemens and the origin of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 1872-1887 253
PETER GALISON
Theoretical predispositions in experimental physics: Einstein and the gyromagnetic experiments, 1915-1925 285
DAVID B. WILSON
Experimentalists among the mathematicians: Physics in the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos, 1851-1899 325
LEWIS PYENSON
Audacious enterprise: The Einsteins and electrotechnology in late nineteenth-century Munich 373
Volume 12, Part 1 (1981)
DAVID CASSIDY
Cosmic ray showers, high energy physics, and quantum field theories: Programmatic interactions in the 1930s 1
LILLIAN HODDESON
The discovery of the point-contact transistor 41
THEODORE M. PORTER
A statistical survey of gases: Maxwell's social physics 77
ARTURO RUSSO
Fundamental research at Bell Laboratories: The discovery of electron diffraction 117
GERT SCHUBRING
Mathematics and teacher training: Plans for a polytechnic in Berlin 161

 

Volume 11 (1980-1981)
Volume 11, Part 2 (1981)
ALLAN FRANKLIN
Millikan's published and unpublished data on oil drops 185
GAD FREUDENTHAL
Early electricity between chemistry and physics: The simultaneous itineraries of Francis Hauksbee, Samuel Wall, and Pierre Polinière 203
DAVID GOODING
Final steps to the field theory: Faraday's study of magnetic phenomena, 1845-1850 231
KARL HUFBAUER
Astronomers take up the stellar-energy problem, 1917-1920 231
JOHN E. LESCH
Conceptual change in an empirical science: The discovery of the first alkaloids 305
GEOFFREY SUTTON
The politics of science in early Napoleonic France: The case of the voltaic pile 329
BRUCE R. WHEATON
Impulse x-rays and radiant intensity: The double edge of analogy 367
Volume 11, Part 1 (1980)
Editor's foreword i
HARVEY W. BECHER
William Whewell and Cambridge mathematics 1
JOHN EARMAN & CLARK GLYMOUR
Relativity and eclipses: The British eclipse expeditions of 1919 and their predecessors 49
EVAN M. MELHADO
Mitscherlich's discovery of isomorphism 87
MARY JO NYE
N-rays: An episode in the history and psychology of science 125
GERRYLYNN K. ROBERTS
The liberally-educated chemist: Chemistry in the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos, 1851-1914 157