( Completed: 2012)
Reorganizing Knowledge in Developed Science: The Rise and Decline of the Mechanical World View.
Back to the project descriptionOther involved scholars: Xiaodong Yin; Volker Blum; Kostas Gavroglu; Ana Simões; Donald Salisbury; Kurt Sundermeyer; Fabio Freitas; Olival Freire; Christian Forstner, Olival Freire, Dieter Hoffmann, Anja Skaar Jacobsen
Extended Bibliography
Books
- Fjaestad, Maja. Visionen om outtömlig energi : bridreaktorn i svensk kärnkraftshistoria 1945-80. Hedemora: Gidlunds Förlag, 2010.
- Forstner, Christian. Quantenmechanik im Kalten Krieg : David Bohm und Richard Feynman. Diepholz [u.a.]: Verl. für Geschichte der Naturwiss. und der Technik, 2007.
- Gavroglu, Kostas; Simões, Ana. Neither physics nor chemistry : a history of quantum chemistry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012.
- Wüthrich, Adrian. The genesis of Feynman diagrams. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Springer, 2010.
Articles and Chapters
- Fjaestad, Maja. "Why did the breed reactor fail? : Swedish and international nuclear development in a cold war context. " CESIS Electronic Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 186 (2009)
- Fjaestad, Maja. "Demokratins triumf eller fiasko? : folkomröstningen om kärnkraft i retroperspektiv. " Daedalus / Tekniska museets årsbok 76 (2008)
- Forstner, Christian. "The early history of David Bohm’s quantum mechanics through the perspective of Ludwik Fleck’s thought-collectives . " Minerva 46 (2 2008)
- Freire, Olival; Lehner, Christoph. "'Dialectical materialism and modern physics,' an unpublished text by Max Born. " Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 64 (2 2010)
- Hoffmann, Dieter. "Die Remigration von (Natur-)Wissenschaftlern in die DDR : das Beispiel der Physiker Martin Strauss, Fritz Lange und Klaus Fuchs." In: Medizin, Wissenschaft und Technik in der SBZ und DDR : Organisationsformen, Inhalte, Realitäten, eds.: Schleiermacher, Sabine; Pohl, Norman. Husum: Matthiesen Verl., 2009.
- Hoffmann, Dieter. "Fritz Lange, Klaus Fuchs, and the remigration of scientists to East Germany. " Physics in Perspective 11 (4 2009)
- Jacobsen, Anja Skaar. "The complementarity between the collective and the individual : Rosenfeld and Cold War history of science. " Minerva 46 (2 2008)
- Jacobsen, Anja Skaar. "Léon Rosenfeld’s Marxist defense of complementarity. " Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 37 (Suppl. 2007)
- Kant, Horst. "Von den falschen Transuranen zur Kernspaltung - die Atomphysiker Enrico Fermi und Lise Meitner." In: Italien und Europa : der italienische Beitrag zur europäischen Kultur, eds.: Meier, Franziska. Innsbruck [u.a.]: Studien-Verlag, 2007.
- Monaldi, Daniela. "The indirect observation of the decay of mesotrons : italian experiments on cosmic radiation, 1937-1943. " Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 38 (3 2008)
- Navarro, Jaume. "'A dedicated missionary' : Charles Galton Darwin and the new quantum mechanics in Britain. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
- Osnaghi, Stefano; Freitas, Fábio; Freire Jr., Olival. "The origin of the Everettian heresy. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (2 2009)
- Salisbury, Donald C.. "Léon Rosenfeld and the challenge of the vanishing momentum in quantum electrodynamics. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (4 2009)
