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Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century.
- H. Kragh
- Physics, History
- 19 March 2001
Dirac: A Scientific Biography
- H. Kragh, S. S. Schweber
- Physics, Philosophy
- 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…
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time
- H. Kragh
- Physics
- 17 February 2015
two-beat conversational rhythm concerning time-usage (Françoise, always busy, again begging off, saying, “I’m only just going to see that my fire isn’t out.”). Likewise, in discussing nationalism in…
Book Review: Cosmology and controversy : the historical development of two theories of the universe / Princeton U Press, 1996 & (pbk. 1999)
- H. Kragh
- Physics, Philosophy
- 1997
A sense of history: History of science and the teaching of introductory quantum theory
- H. Kragh
- Sociology
- 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…
Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary
- H. Kragh
- Physics
- 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…
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