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53 results for "History of Physical Sciences"

53 results for "History of Physical Sciences"

Rebecka Mähring

Person

Research Interests: History of physics; labor history; material and visual culture; scientific visualizations; history of photography; history of technology; sociology of science; history of observation.

Rebecka Mikaela Mähring is a PhD student in the...

Sylvan S. Schweber

Person

Silvan(Sam) Schweber was born in Strasbourg, France in 1928.  He came to the United States in July 1942. He attended the City College of NY and graduated as a chemistry and physics major in 1947. He thereafter obtained a MS in Physics  from the...

Ion G. Mihailescu

Person

Research Interests: History of physics (particularly theoretical high-energy physics); early modern history and popularization of science.

Degrees:
BA., Columbia University
PhD., History of Science, Harvard University 

Charlie Mayhew

Person

Research Interests: Early modern science; environmental history; history of environmental sciences; history of physical sciences; intellectual history; philosophy of science; science and religion.

Charlie Mayhew is a PhD student and Presidential Scholar in...

Gerald Holton

Person

Gerald Holton obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard as a student of P. W. Bridgman. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists.





 

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Daniel McAllister Volmar

Person

Research Interests: History and philosophy of science; the relationship between mathematics and physics.

Previous Degrees:
BA., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Benjamin Wilson

Person

Areas of Research: History of Physical Sciences

Benjamin Wilson is Associate Professor of History of Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of modern physics, the relationship between science and national security during the...

Megan Shields Formato

Person

Research Interests: 20th c. physics; Niels Bohr and the Bohr Atomic Model; science as a literary practice; relations between literature and science.

Degrees:
BA., Amherst College
PhD., History of Science, Harvard University 

 

Juanita (Juanis) Becerra Sandoval

Person

Research Interests: History of computing; history of technology; history of the body; history of the senses, science & technology studies.

Juanis is a Ph.D. candidate whose work examines histories of artificial intelligence, subjectivity, and the senses...

Francis Newman

Person

Research Interests: Histories of science, medicine, and technology in East Asia; environmental history; science and colonialism; Qing history; Taiwan studies.

Francis is a PhD candidate in history of science. His work draws together histories of the...

Tiffany Nichols

Person

Research Interests: History of modern physics; history of technology.

Tiffany completed her BS in Electrical Engineering and her JD at the University of Virginia and she is a licensed attorney in California, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S...

Hannah Ahlblad

Person

Research Interests: History of physical sciences; history of technology; urban sociology; visual representation in science.

Hannah Ahlblad is an A.M. student in the History of Science and PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Theory...