On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules
- H. Kragh
- Chemistry
- 17 May 2012
Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century.
- H. Kragh
- Physics
- 19 March 2001
Cosmology and Controversy
- H. Kragh
- Physics
- 31 December 1996
Dirac: A Scientific Biography
- H. Kragh, S. S. Schweber
- Physics
- 1 April 1991
Preface 1. Early years 2. Discovery of quantum mechanics 3. Relativity and spinning electrons 4. Travels and thinking 5. The dream of philosophers 6. Quanta and fields 7. Fifty years of a physicist's…
Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary
- H. Kragh
- Physics, Education
- 1 December 2000
According to the standard story, which is unfortunately still found in many physics textbooks, quantum theory emerged when it was realized that classical physics predicts an energy distribution for…
The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
"If it's a boy, he'll be a scientist" "what one fool can do, another can do better" Undergraduate at MIT arrival in Princeton as a graduate student action-at-a-distance in electrodynamics - the…
A sense of history: History of science and the teaching of introductory quantum theory
- H. Kragh
- Education, Physics
- 1 December 1992
This paper argues that some kind of historical perspective is a conditio sine qua non in the teaching of physics. Without a proper historical perspective the student will not experience physics as…
The Vortex Atom: A Victorian Theory of Everything
- H. Kragh
- Mathematics
- 1 July 2002
Historique de l'elaboration et de l'abandon d'une theorie developpee en Grande-Bretagne a l'epoque victorienne, l'atome Vortex, supposee elucider tous les mysteres de la physique et resoudre les…
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