Charlotte Bigg
Visiting Scholar
Ph.D., Centre Alexandre Koyré/CNRS, Paris, France
Funded by the CNRS
Residence: February 1 - June 30, 2012
Profile
Charlotte Bigg is an historian of physics, chemistry and astrophysics and their popularisation. Her PhD dissertation focussed on the circulation of spectroscopic instruments and techniques between different scientific and industrial settings (University of Cambridge, 2002). She is currently completing a project on the history of Brownian motion research in early twentieth century France, examining in particular the work of physical chemist Jean Perrin. On 1 January 2009 she took up a position as Chargé de Recherche at the Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris (CNRS), with a project on the observatory as a scientific, political and cultural actor from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
Selected publications
Charlotte Bigg. "Evident Atoms. Visuality in Jean Perrin’s Brownian motion research. " Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008)
Charlotte Bigg. "La Carte du Ciel vue de Potsdam." In: La Carte du Ciel, Histoire et actualité d’un Projet scientifique international, eds.: J. Lamy. 2008.
Bigg, Charlotte. "In weiter Ferne so nah : Bilder des Titans. " Bildwelten des Wissens 5 (2 2007)
Bigg, Charlotte. "The scientist as personality : elaborating a science of intimacy in the Nadar/ Chevreul interview (1886)." In: Science images and popular images of the sciences, eds.: Hüppauf, Bernd-Rüdiger; Weingart, Peter. New York [u.a.]: Routledge, 2007.
Bigg, Charlotte. "The panorama, or la nature a coup d’oeil." In: Observing nature - representing experience : the osmotic dynamics of romanticism 1800-1850, eds.: Fiorentini, Erna. Berlin: Reimer, 2007.
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