 Volume XXVI, No. 2, Fall 1994 |
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS A supplement to the Newsletters of BOOKS
This list is the first of an annual series. It includes books on the history of modern physics and related topics (including astronomy, geophysics, and physics in medicine) published in 1997 or later. (See earlier lists for details on how the list is prepared.) Permission is hereby granted to copy freely all or part of this list for any educational purpose. More extensive versions of this and the other previous lists are available on the Center's Web site at: www.aip.org/history/web-news.htm#bib.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDEX......please search our web site at www.aip.org/history/s-indx.htm All our bibliographies for all years can be searched on our Web site. Visit www.aip.org/history/s-indx.htm and type your search in the search box. To search one year's bibliography only for, say, Einstein, enter: [Einstein AND "Fall 1999"]
[back to top] PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Horwich, Paul (ed.) World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science. vi + 356 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. ISBN 0-262-08216-0. $45. Includes "A mathematicians mutiny, with morals" [in the 18th century "mathematics included parts of what we now call "physics" or "astronomy"], by J. L. Heilbron, 81-129; "Science and humanism in the Renaissance: Regiomontanus's oration on the dignity and utility of the mathematical sciences" by N. M. Swerdlow, 131-68; "Design for experimenting" [in 19th century optics and electricity] by J. Z. Buchwald, 169-206; "Mediations: Enlightenment balancing acts, or the technologies of rationalism" by M. N. Wise, 207-56; "Afterwords" by T. Kuhn, 311-41. [See also Holton under HISTORY OF SCIENCE] [back to top] SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Macrakis, Kristie Surviving the swastika. Scientific research
in Nazi Germany. xii + 280 pp., illus, index. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-507010-0. & $39.95. Includes brief sections on Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, Max Planck, Johannes Stark, "Deutsche Physik," uranium research. National Science Board. Science & Engineering Indicators -- 1993.
xxxi + 514 pp. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993.
A biennial report, providing quantitative measures of scientific
and technological activity in the U.S. and comparisons with other countries.
Includes data (going back to 1980 or earlier) on science education, the
science and engineering workforce, funding of research and development,
and public attitudes toward science and technology. Renneberg, Monika and Walker, Mark (eds.) Science, technology,
and National Socialism. xix + 422 pp., illus., notes, index. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0521-40374-X. $59.95. Includes "Pascual Jordan, quantum mechanics, psychology, National Socialism" by M. N. Wise, 224-54; "The ideology of early particle accelerators: An association between knowledge and power" by M. Osietzki, 255-70; "The Minerva Project: The accelerator laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute/Max Planck Institute of Chemistry: Continuity in fundamental research" by B. Weiss, 271-90. [See also Fischer under HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY] [back to top] SCIENCE AND THE MILITARY; ATOMIC WEAPONS Hoddeson, Lillian; Henriksen, Paul W.; Meade, Roger A.; Westfall,
Catherine et al. Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos
during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945. xvi + 509 pp., illus.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-44132-3. $39.95. Hoffmann, Dieter (ed.) Operation Epsilon: Die Farm-Hall Protokolle.
380 pp. Berlin: Rowohlt, 1993. ISBN 3-87134-082-0. Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall transcripts. Introduced by Sir Charles
Frank. ix + 313 pp., illus., index. Berkeley: University of California
Press (distrib. for Institute of Physics Publishing), 1993. ISBN 0-520-08499-3.
$30. Transcript of recordings made of the conversations of Werner
Heisenberg and other German scientists, discussing their atomic energy
project, while they were interned at Farm Hall (England), just before
and just after Hiroshima. Powers, Thomas. Heisenberg's war: The secret history of
the German bomb. xi + 607 pp., illus. New York: Knopf, 1993. ISBN 0-394-51411-4.
$27.00 Wittner, Lawrence, S. The struggle against the bomb. Volume 1. One world or none: A history of the world nuclear disarmament movement through 1953. xvi + 456 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8047-2141-6. $29.95. [back to top] SCIENCE AND OTHER DISCIPLINES Nahin, Paul J. Time machines: Time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction. xvii + 408 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1993. ISBN 0-88318-935-6. $45. [back to top] THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY Crawford, Elisabeth; Shinn, Terry; and Sörlin, Sverker, eds. Denationalizing
science: The contexts of international scientific practice. vii + 301
pp., illus., index. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
ISBN 0-7923-1855-2. $149. Includes "Migration and the denationalization of science
[including theoretical physics in the 1930s]" by Paul Hoch and
Jennifer Platt, 133-52; "Some socio-historical aspects of multinational
collaborations in high-energy physics at CERN between 1975 and 1985" by
John Krige, 233-62. Geiger, Roger. Research and relevant knowledge: American research universities since World War II. xvi + 411 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-505346-X. $65. [back to top] SCIENCE EDUCATION Clark, Burton R. (ed.) Research foundations of graduate education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan. xxi + 390 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-079973. $45. Includes physics education in all 5 countries. [back to top] INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE Good, Gregory A. (ed.) The earth, the heavens
and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. (History of Geophysics, Volume
5.) xiii + 252 pp. [double-column], illus. Washington, DC: American Geophysical
Union, 1994. ISBN 0-87590-279-0; ISSN 8755-1217. $42. Based on a conference held in June 1992. Includes "Weighing
the earth from a submarine: The gravity measuring cruise of the U.S.S.
S-21" by Naomi Oreskes, 53-68; "Sharing a mountaintop: The Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory on Mount Wilson" by R. S. Brashear, 89-101;
"Converting an hypothesis into a research program: T. C. Chamberlin,
his planetesimal hypothesis [for the origin of the solar system], and
its effect on research at the Mt. Wilson Observatory" by N. S. Hetherington,
113-23; "To Watheroo and back: The DTM [Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
of CIW] in Australia, 1911-1947" by R. W. Home, 149-60; "Merle
A. Tuve's post-war geophysics: Early explosion seismology" by Thomas
D. Cornell, 185-214; other articles on the history of CIW; on CIW-sponsored
research on magnetism, astronomy, ionospheric research, and on radiometric
dating; and on source materials for the history of physical science.
Seaborg, Glenn T. The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon: Adjusting to troubled times. With Benjamin S. Loeb. xx + 268 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. ISBN 0-312-07899-4. $39.95. A sequel to his earlier books about his service under Kennedy and Johnson; Seaborg resigned as chairman of the AEC in August 1971. This is "the story of what it is like to preside over a once proud and privileged government agency that is declining in reputation and influence..." For a chapter titled "The advice of scientists" the motto is "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." [back to top] HISTORY OF SCIENCE Cohen, I. Bernard (ed.) The natural sciences and
the social sciences: Some critical and historical perspectives. (Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 150) xxxvi + 403 pp. Norwell, MA:
Kluwer, 1994. ISBN 0-7923-2223-1. Includes "From Quetelet to Maxwell: Social
statistics and the origins of statistical physics" by Ted Porter,
345-62. Holton, Gerald. Science and anti-science. x +
203 pp., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-674-79298-X
(paper). $24.95. Includes "Ernst Mach and the fortunes of positivism,"
1-55; "More on Mach and Einstein," 56-73; "Quanta, relativity,
and rhetoric," 74-108. Margolis, Howard. Paradigms & barriers: How habits
of mind govern scientific beliefs. xii + 267 pp., bibl., index. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-50522-7, $40.00 (hardcover);
ISBN 0-226-50523-5, $15.95 (paper). Historical examples include the emergence of probability,
the change from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy, and the Hobbes-Boyle
dispute on air pressure (including a critique of S. Shapin & S.
Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air Pump, 1985). Pyenson, Lewis. Civilizing mission: Exact sciences
and French overseas expansion, 1830-1940. xxi + 377 pp, illus., index.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8018-4421-5. $45.
Astronomy, geophysics, meteorology, physics, seismology, and terrestrial magnetism in the French overseas empire and the French sphere of influence. [back to top] HISTORY OF PHYSICS Brown, Laurie M. (ed.) Renormalization: From
Lorentz to Landau (and beyond). vii + 192 pp., illus., index.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993. ISBN 0-387-97933-6. $69. Includes: "Introduction: Renormalization, 1930-1950" by
L. M. Brown, 1-27; "Renormalization in historical perspective -- the first
stage" by M. Dresden, 29-55; "New philosophy of renormalization:
from the renormalization group equations to effective field theories"
by T. Y. Cao, 87-133; "Changing conceptualization of renormalization"
by S. S. Schweber, 135-66; "Historical remarks on the renormalization
group" by D. V. Shirkov, 167-86. Bruzzaniti, Giuseppe. Dal segno al nucleo. Saggio
sulle origini della fisica nucleare. 314 pp., notes, index. Turin: Bollati
Boringhieri, 1993. ISBN 88-339-0779-1. Franklin, Allan. The rise and fall of the fifth
force: Discovery, pursuit, and justification in modern physics. viii +
141 pp., illus. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1993. ISBN 1-56396-119-9.
$29.95. On the 1986 proposal by Ephraim Fischbach, widely
debated and investigated by physicists for a few years, then generally
rejected around 1990. Lindqvist, Svante (ed.) Center on the periphery:
Historical aspects of 20th-century Swedish physics. lv + 516 pp. Canton,
MA: Science History Publications, 1993. ISBN 0-88135-157-1. $50. Contents: "Introductory essay: Harry Martinson and
the periphery of the atom" by S. Lindqvist; "Physics as culture:
Science and Weltanschauung in inter-war Sweden" by Kjell Jonsson,
3-23; "Physics as ideology: Svante Arrhenius as a writer of popular
science" by Olov Amelin, 42-57; "Physics in a stronghold of engineering:
Professorial appointments at the Royal Institute of Technology, 1922-1985"
by Ulf Larsson, 58-75; "Where science turns into sports and politics:
The decline of Swedish polar research in the early 20th century" by Urban
Wråkberg, 79-106; "Big science in a small country: Sweden and CERN
II" by Sven Widmalm, 107-40; "Physics in uniform: The Swedish Institute
of Military Physics, 1939-1945" by Hans Weinberger, 141-63; "The
socialization of science: Technical research and the natural sciences
in Swedish research policy in the 1930s and 1940s" by Thorsten Nybom,
164-78; "Implementing the welfare state: The emergence of Swedish atomic
energy research policy" by Stefan Lindström, 179-95; "Breakthrough
on the periphery: Bengt Edlén and the identification of the coronal
lines, 1939-1945" by Karl Hufbauer, 199-237; "International acclaim
and Swedish obscurity: The fall and rise of David Enskog" by Mats
Fridlund, 238-68; "Reaching out: Janne Rydberg's struggle for
recognition" by Paul C. Hamilton, 269-92; "Relative acceptance:
The introduction and reception of Einstein's theories in Sweden,
1905-1965" by Carl-Olov Stawström, 293-305; "When theory addresses
experiment: The Siegbahn-Sommerfeld correspondence, 1917-1940"
by Thomas Kaiserfeld, 306-24; "The ideological use of instrumentation:
The Svedberg, atoms, and the structure of matter" by Anders
Lundgren, 327-46; "The failure of a successful artifact: The Svedberg
ultracentrifuge" by Boelie Elzen, 347-77; "Technological drift
in science: Swedish radio astronomy in the making, 1942-1976" by Mikael
Hård, 378-97; "The intellectual politics of laboratory technology:
The protein network and the Tiselius apparatus" by Lily E. Kay,
398-423; "The proud tower: Knut Ångström and the international
style of fin de siècle physics buildings" by Anders Marelius
and Erik Noreland, 424-39; "Bibliography of the history of 20th-century
Swedish physics" by Margareta Bond-Fahlberg, 441-500. Mann, Alfred K. and Cline, David B. (eds.) Discovery
of weak neutral currents: The weak interaction before and after. Santa
Monica, CA, February 1993. (AIP Conference Proceedings, 300) xi + 676
pp. New York: AIP Press, 1994. ISBN 1-56396-306-X. $145. Includes "Early study of muons and muon decay" by M.
Conversi, 3-16; "The discovery of the V-particles" by G. D. Rochester,
17-38; "Search for the free neutrino" by F. Reines, 39-51; "Contributions
of ß-decays to the developments of electroweak interaction" by C.-S.
Wu, 52-92; "The early period of the universal Fermi interaction" by
Jayme Tiomno, 99-109; "Origin of the universal V-A theory" by E.
C. G. Sudarshan and R. E. Marshak, 110-124; "The tau- puzzle"
by R. H. Dalitz, 141-58; "The early search for weak neutral currents
and the rise of the standard model" by D. B. Cline, 175-86; "Discovery
of weak neutral currents in Gargamelle" by D. Haidt, 187-206; "Observation
of weak neutral currents and bare charm in Fermilab Experiment 1A" by
A. K. Mann, 207-43; "The discovery of neutral currents" by P.
Galison, 244-286; "Five phases of weak neutral current experiments
from the perspective of a theorist" by P. Langacker, 289-325; "The
development of colliders" by A. M. Sessler, 509-25; "Experimental
observation of the intermediate vector bosons W+, W-, and
Z0" by C. Rubbia, 526-91; "Discovery of the gluon" by S.
L. Wu, 598-623; "The discovery of charm" by G. Goldhaber, 624-40;
"30 years of weak neutral currents" by D. B. Cline, 643-73. Miller, Arthur I. Early quantum electrodynamics:
A sourcebook. xix + 265 pp., index. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1994. ISBN 0-521-43169-7. $59.95. Contents: "Frame-setting essay" by Miller, 3-118; papers
by Dirac, Fierz, Heisenberg, Kramers, Pauli, Weisskopf.
Redhead, Paul A. (ed.) Vacuum science and technology:
Pioneers of the 20th century. (History of Vacuum Science and Technology,
vol. 2) xi + 229 pp., illus. New York: American Institute of Physics,
1994. ISBN 1563962489 (pb), $35. Includes: "The American Vacuum Society at 40" by Jack
H. Singleton, 1-22; "Saul Dushman (1883-1954)" by J. M.
Lafferty, 32-42; "Wolfgang Gaede (1878-1945)" by Günter
Reich, 43-58; "History of vacuum science: A visual aids project" by
J. M. Lafferty, 91-106; "Early development of the molecular-drag pump"
by Günter Reich, 114-125; "The quest for ultrahigh vacuum (1910-1950)"
by P. A. Redhead, 133-143; reproductions of classic papers by Dushman
and others. Schweber, Silvan S. QED and the men who made it:
Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. xxviii + 732 pp., bibl., index.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-691-03685-3 (hc)
$72.50. ISBN 0-691-03327-7 (paper) $39.50. The birth of quantum field theory in the 1920s (Pascual Jordan, P. A. M. Dirac); quantum electrodynamics ("QED") during the 1930s; divergences; conferences at Shelter Island, Pocono, and Oldstone; the Lamb shift and the magnetic moment of the electron; Sin-itiro Tomonaga and the rebuilding of Japanese physics; Julian Schwinger and the formalization of quantum field theory; Richard Feynman and the visualization of space-time processes; Freeman Dyson and the structure of quantum field theory; QED in Switzerland; reflections on renormalization theory. Verschuur, Gerrit L. Hidden attraction: The history
and mystery of magnetism. vii + 256 pp., illus. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-506488-7. $25. Deals mostly with 19th and 20th centuries. [back to top] HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND SPACE SCIENCES Fischer, Peter. The origins of the Federal Republic
of Germany's space policy 1959-1965 -- European and national dimensions.
65 pp. Noordwijk, Netherlands: European Space Agency, report ESA HSR-12,
1994. Gingerich, Owen. The eye of heaven: Ptolemy,
Copernicus, Kepler. viii + 442 pp. New York: American Institute of
Physics, 1993. ISBN 0-88318-863-5. $24.95. Reprint of previously published articles on the Copernican
revolution, with new preface and epilogue. Grant, Edward. Planets, stars, and orbs The medieval
cosmos, 1200-1687. xxiii + 816 pp, illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-433-444. $69.95. Hetherington, Norriss S. (ed.) Cosmology: Historical,
literary, philosophical, religious, and scientific perspectives. xi +
631 pp., bibl. notes, index. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1993.
ISBN 0-8153-1085-4 (hardcover), $85. ISBN 0-8153-0934-1 (paper), $18.95. Includes articles on ancient, medieval and Native American
cosmologies, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, 19th century reflecting
telescopes, spectroscopy, cosmology 1900-1931, Hubble, big bang, steady
state, modern theories, philosophical and religious aspects. Hetherington, Norriss S. (ed.) Encyclopedia of
cosmology: Historical, philosophical, and scientific foundations of modern
cosmology. xv + 686 pp., illus, index. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.
ISBN 0-8240-7213-8. $125.00. Krige, John Europe into space: The [Pierre]
Auger years (1959-1967). 74 pp. Noordwijk, Netherlands: European Space
Agency, 1993. Lemonick, Michael D. The light at the edge of
the universe: leading cosmologists on the brink of a scientific revolution.
viii + 325 pp., illus., index. New York: Villard Books [distributed by
Random House], 1993. ISBN 0-679-41304-9. $24. Neta Bahcall, George Blumenthal, Robert Dicke, Sandra
Faber, Margaret Geller, Alan Guth, Jacqueline Hewitt, John Huchra, Norm
Jarosik, Robert Kirshner, Jeremiah Ostriker, Bohdan Paczynski, Lyman Page,
P. James E. Peebles, Joel Primack, Vera Rubin, Bernard Sadoulet, David
Schramm, George Smoot, David Spergel, John Tonry, Edward Turner, Michael
Turner, J. Anthony Tyson, David Weinberg, David Wilkinson, Ed Wollack.
Moss, Jean Dietz Novelties in the heavens: Rhetoric
and science in the Copernican controversy. xiv + 353 pp, bibl., index.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-54234-3 (hc), $49.95;
ISBN 0-226-54235-1 (paper), $17.95. Discusses the arguments of Copernicus, Kepler,
Galileo, Tommaso Campanella, Giordano Bruno, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine,
Orazio Grassi, and John Wilkins. Osterbrock, Donald E. Pauper & price: Ritchey,
Hale & big American telescopes. xv + 359 pp., illus., notes, index. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8165-1199-3. $45. On George Willis Ritchey and George Ellery Hale. Paul, Erich Robert. The Milky Way galaxy and statistical
cosmology, 1890-1924. xiv + 262 pp., illus., facsims., ports., index.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-35363-7. $44.95. On the work of J. C. Kapteyn, Hugo von Seeliger
and others. Peterson, Ivars. Newton's clock: Chaos
in the solar system. xiii + 317 pp, illus., bibl., index. New York: Freeman,
1993. ISBN 0-7167-2396-4. $21. A popular history of celestial mechanics, emphasizing the
problem of the predictability of future motions of planets and other bodies;
together with an account of recent applications of chaos theory to this
problem. Discusses the work of P. S. de Laplace, Jacques Laskar, Henri
Poincaré, Gerald Sussman, Jack Wisdom, and others. Russo, Arturo (ed.) Science beyond the atmosphere:
The history of space research in Europe. Proceedings of a symposium held
in Palermo, 5-7 November 1992. viii + 219 pp, illus. Noordwijk, The Netherlands:
European Space Agency Publications Division, n.d. [received September
1993]. Includes: "Space science in ESRO [European Space Research
Organization] and ESA [European Space Agency]: An overview" by Roger
Bonnet, pp. 1-28; "How space scientists and governments saw ESRO in
the early 1960s" by John Krige, pp. 29-40; "1960: how many European
astronomers wanted a space telescope" by Marcel Golay, pp. 41-55;
"The start of space research in Sweden during the COPERS [Commission Préparatoire
Européenne de Recherches Spatiales] and early ESRO years, with personal
recollections" by Bengt Hultqvist, pp. 89-105; "Italy in space:
Edoardo Amaldi and the take-off of the Italian space programme"
by Michelangelo De Maria, pp. 113-24; "Seizing opportunities: some
comments on the Dutch national space programme of the sixties and seventies"
by Hendrik van de Hulst, pp. 125-38; "From sounding rockets to
small satellites: A way of complementing ESRO/ESA flight opportunities"
by Gerhard Haerendel, pp. 153-70; "European space scientists and
the genesis of the Ulysses mission, 1965-1979" by Karl Hufbauer,
pp. 171-91; "Solar system science for Horizon 2000" by Martin Huber,
pp. 193-219. Wilhelms, Don E. To a rocky moon: A geologist's
history of lunar exploration. xx + 477 pp., notes, bibl., index. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8165-1065-2 (hc), $29.95. ISBN
0-8165-1443-7 (pb), $19.95. Includes sections on R. Baldwin, G. K. Gilbert, W. Hartmann, G. P. Kuiper, E. M. Shoemaker, H. C. Urey, and others. [See also Hetherington under ENCYCLOPEDIAS] [back to top] HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS Von Plato, Jan. Creating modern probability. Its
mathematics, physics and philosophy in historical perspective. (Cambridge
studies in probability, induction, and decision theory.) x + 323 pp.,
bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-44403-9.
On the 1933 theory of Andrei Kolmogorov and the developments in mathematics (set theory, measure theory) and physics (statistical mechanics, quantum theory) related to it. [back to top] HISTORY OF INSTRUMENTATION Queen, James W. & Co. The Queen catalogues. With
a new introduction by Deborah Jean Warner. 2 vols, variously paginated.
ISBN 0-930405-30-7. $245. Reprint of instrument catalogs from the second half of the 19th century. Vol. I includes optics, astronomy, mathematics and engineering; Vol. II includes physics and electricity. [back to top] HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Hazen, Robert M. The new alchemists. Breaking
through the barriers of high pressure. xvi + 286 pp., illus. New York:
Times Books, 1993. ISBN 0-8129-2275-1. $25. On the synthesis of diamond (1954) and subsequent developments in high pressure physics. Discusses the research of Peter Bell, Harold Bovenkirk, Percy W. Bridgman, Francis Bundy, Loring Coes, H. Tracy Hall, George Kennedy, Ho-Kwang Mao, Herbert Strong, Alvin Van Valkenberg, Baltzar Von Platen, Charles Weir. [back to top] OTHER SCIENCES Taubes, Gary. Bad science: The short life and
weird times of cold fusion. xxi + 503 pp., illus., index. New York: Random
House, 1993. ISBN 0-394-58456-2. $25. On Allen Bard, Jim Brophy, Martin Fleischmann, Ryszard Gajewski, Steven Jones, Steven Koonin, Nathan Lewis, Chase Peterson, B. Stanley Pons, Hugo Rossi and others. [back to top] BIOGRAPHIES OF SCIENTISTS COLLECTED BIOGRAPHIES (3 or more scientists) Bernstein, Jeremy. Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos:
Writings on science. x + 220 pp., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books,
1993. ISBN 0-465-08897-X. $23. Includes essays on Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking,
E. H. Land, Ernst Mach, Erwin Schrödinger, Alan Turing, and others. Serafini, Anthony. Legends in their own time:
A century of American physical scientists. xv + 361 pp., notes, index.
New York: Plenum Press, 1993. ISBN 0-306-44460-7. $27.50. Includes chapters on astronomy, the Harvard Observatory, the Manhattan Project, solid-state physics, C. D. Anderson, H. A. Bethe, A. H. Compton, C. Davisson, R. P. Feynman, M. Gell-Mann, S. L. Glashow, L. Germer, J. W. Gibbs, I. Langmuir, E. O. Lawrence, T. D. Lee, A. A. Michelson, H. Rowland, S. Weinberg, C. N. Yang. [See also Schweber under HISTORY OF PHYSICS; Lemonick under HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY] [back to top] INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; ANALYSES OF A SCIENTIST'S WORK Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay. A matter of choices: Memoirs
of a female physicist. viii + 234 pp., illus., bibl. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8135-2034-7 (hardcover), $40. ISBN
0-8135-2035-5 (paperback), $18. [Bohr, Niels] Petruccioli, Sandro. Atoms, metaphors,
and paradoxes: Niels Bohr and the construction of a new physics. Translated
by Ian McGilvary. vii + 241 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1993. ISBN 0-521-40259-x. $49.95. [Bok, Bart] Levy, David H. The man who sold the
Milky Way: A biography of Bart Bok. xiv + 246 pp., illus., bibl., index.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8165-1149-7. $35. [Boltzmann, Ludwig] Battimelli, Giovanni; Ianniello,
Maria Grazia; Kresten, Otto (eds.) Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Ludwig Boltzmann (Rome, February 9-11, 1989). 254 pp. Vienna:
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1993. ISBN 3-7001-1984-4
(paper). Includes: "The dissertations prepared under the supervision
of L. Boltzmann" by Gabriele Kerber-Auguste Dick, 29-45; "Boltzmann's
philosophical education and its bearing on his mature epistemology" by
Andrew D. Wilson, 57-69; "Boltzmann and Hertz on the Bild-conception
of physical theory" by Salvo D'Agostino, 75-94; "Boltzmann's influence
on H. A. Lorentz" by Anne J. Kox, 95-111; "Boltzmann's 'Nachwirkung'
and hereditary mechanics" by Maria Grazia Ianniello-Giorgio Israel,
113-33; "Dynamical and statistical conceptions in Boltzmann's physics"
by Karl von Meyenn, 141-62; "Boltzmann's statistical approach to
irreversibility" by Dieter Flamm, 163-74; "Boltzmann and the foundations
of statistical mechanics" by Angelo Baracca, 179-192; "Boltzmann
and the problem of equipartition of energy" by Luigi Galgani, 193-202;
"Boltzmann's legacy in condensed matter theory: Ideas from Van der
Waals to Feynman" by David Chandler, 215-28; "Equilibrium
ensembles and their computer realization: The Gibbsian program"
by John P. Valleau, 229-54. [Budker, G. I.] Breizman, Boris and Van Dam,
James (eds.). G. I. Budker: Reflections and remembrances. [translated
from Russian] xvii + 364 pp., illus. New York: American Institute of Physics,
1993. ISBN 1-56396-070-2. $45. Includes 7 short essays by Budker (1918-1977). [Conant, James B.] Hershberg, James G. James B.
Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age. ix + 948
pp. illus., bibl., index. New York: Knopf, 1993. ISBN 0-394-57966-6. $35. "After a brief treatment of Conant's early life and career
Hershberg, beginning at about the time World War II broke out, weaves
Conant's life into a tapestry that includes, among other things, the making
of the atomic bomb and the decision to use it against Japan; early efforts
at internationalization of atomic energy; the personalities and politics
surrounding the decision to proceed to the "Super" (the H bomb); McCarthyism
and the academy; the Cold War and the militarization of American science;
the labyrinthine politics of occupied and divided Germany; and the tortuous
hammering out of American policy vis-à-vis the Federal Republic and the
place of Germany in a Cold War world." (From the review by Carol S. Gruber
in Science, 13 May 1994) [Feynman, Richard] Brown, Laurie M. and
Rigden, John S. (eds.) "Most of the good stuff": Memories of Richard
Feynman. vi + 181 pp., illus., notes, bibl. New York: American Institute
of Physics, 1993. ISBN 0-88318-870-8. $35. Articles by J. A. Wheeler, F. J. Dyson, J. Schwinger,
M. Gell-Mann, D. Pines, D. L. Goodstein, W. D. Hillis, and others,
most of them reprinted from Physics Today; bibliography of Feynman.
[Feynman, Richard] Gleick, James. Genius: The life and
science of Richard Feynman. x + 533 pp., illus., index. New York: Vintage
Books (Random House), 1993. ISBN 0-679-74704-4. Paperback reprint of the
1992 edition. $14.00. [Friedmann, Alexander A.] Tropp, Eduard A.; Frenkel,
Viktor Ya.; Chernin, Artur D. Alexander A. Friedmann: The man who
made the universe expand. [Translated by Alexander Dron and Michael Burov
from Russian] x + 267 pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-38470-2. $49.95. [Galilei, Galileo] Biagioli, Mario. Galileo: Courtier.
The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism. xii + 402 pp., bibl.,
index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-04559-5.
$29.95. [Galilei, Galileo] Sharratt, Michael. Galileo:
Decisive innovator. xiii + 247 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell, 1994. ISBN 0-631-17682-9. $29.95. [Green, George] Cannell, Doris Mary. George Green:
Mathematican and physicist 1793-1841. The background to his life and work.
xxvi + 265 pp, illus., notes, index. London & Atlantic Highlands, NJ:
Athlone Press, 1993. ISBN 0-485-11433-X. $70. [Hale, George Ellery] Wright, Helen. Explorer of the universe:
A biography of George Ellery Hale. (History of Modern Physics and Astronomy,
Volume 14) Introduction to the Reprint Edition by Allan Sandage. 487 pp.,
illus., bibl., index. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1994. ISBN
1-56396-249-7. $29.95. Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1966. [Hale, George Ellery. See also Osterbrock, under HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY] [Helmholtz, Hermann von] Cahan, David (ed.) Hermann
von Helmholtz and the foundations of nineteenth-century science. (California
Studies in the History of Science, 12) xxx + 666 pp., illus. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994. ISBN 0-520-08334-2. $65. Based on a conference, October 1990. Includes: "Helmholtz's
Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft: The emergence of a theoretical physicist"
by Fabio Bevilacqua, 291-333; "Electrodynamics in context: Objects
states, laboratory practice, and anti-Romanticism" by Jed Z. Buchwald,
334-73; "Helmholtz's instrumental role in the formation of classical electrodynamics"
by Walter Kaiser, 374-402; "Between physics and chemistry: Helmholtz's
route to a theory of chemical thermodynamics" by Helge Kragh, 403-31;
"Helmholtz's mechanical foundation of thermodynamics" by Günther Bierhalter,
432-58. [Hörbiger, Hanns] Bowen, Robert. Universal ice:
Science and ideology in the Nazi state. xv + 189 pp., illus., notes, bibl.,
index. London: Belhaven Press, 1993. ISBN 1852931906. $59. On the political use of Hörbiger's Glacial-Kosmogonie
(first published in 1913), a theory of the origin of the solar system
and of the history of the earth. [Hubble, Edwin P.] Sharov, Alexander S. and Novikov,
Igor D. Edwin Hubble, the discoverer of the big bang universe. [Translated
from Russian ed., 1989] xvi + 187 pp., illus., appendices, bibl., indexes.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-41617-5. $34.95. [Kepler, Johannes] Caspar, Max. Kepler. Translated
and edited by C. Doris Hellman. With a new introduction and references
by Owen Gingerich. 441 pp. New York: Dover Publications, 1993.
ISBN 0-486-67605-6 (paperback) $10.95. [Kepler, Johannes] Kozhamthadan, Job, S. J. The
discovery of Kepler's laws: The interaction of science, philosophy, and
religion. xi + 316 pp. Notre Dame & London: University of Notre Dame Press,
1994. ISBN 0-268-00868-X. [Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm] Bertoloni Meli, Domenico.
Equivalence and priority: Newton versus Leibniz. Including
Leibniz's unpublished manuscripts on the Principia. ix + 318 pp.,
notes, index. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-853945-2. $82.50 [Mayer, Julius Robert] Caneva, Kenneth L.
Robert Mayer and the conservation of energy. xxiii + 439 pp., notes, bibl.,
index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-691-08758-X.
$49.50. [Newton, Isaac] Hall, A. Rupert. All was light:
An introduction to Newton's Opticks. viii + 252 pp., illus., bibl.,
indexes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN-0-19-853985-1.
$52.50. [Newton, Isaac] Theerman, Paul; Seeff, Adele
F. (eds.) Action and reaction: Proceedings of a Symposium to commemorate
the tercentenary of Newton's Principia. 324 pp., index. Newark,
DE: University of Delaware Press/London & Toronto: Associated University
Presses, 1993. ISBN 0-87413-446-3. $39.50 Includes: "Introduction" [on the history of Newtonian anniversary
celebrations] by S. G. Brush, A. F. Seeff and P. Theerman,
pp. 11-27; "The culmination of the Scientific Revolution: Isaac Newton"
by R. S. Westfall, pp. 31-60; "The Principia, the Newtonian
style, and the Newtonian Revolution in science" by I. B. Cohen,
pp. 61-104; ""The unity of truth": An integrated view of Newton's work"
by B. J. T. Dobbs, pp. 105-143; "Reasoning from phenomena: Newton's
argument for universal gravitation and the practice of science" by W.
L. Harper, pp. 144-182; "Algebraic vs. geometric techniques in Newton's
determination of planetary orbits" by M. S. Mahoney, pp. 183-205;
"Comets and idols: Newton's cosmology and political theology" by S.
Schaffer, pp. 206-31; "Overview: Newton's place in history" by D.
Shapere, pp. 300-11; other articles on the relation between Newtonianism
and chemistry, economics, and concepts of insanity. [Newton, Isaac] See also under Leibniz, above. [Oppenheimer, J. Robert] Holloway, Rachael L.
In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Politics, rhetoric, and self-defense.
x + 123 pp, notes, bibl., index. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. ISBN 0-275-94429-8.
$42.95. Analysis of the documents in the 1954 Oppenheimer hearings
using "terminological algebra." [Ritchey, George Willis. See Osterbrock, under
HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY.] Segrè, Emilio. A mind always in motion: The autobiography of Emilio Segrè. xii + 332 pp., illus., notes, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-07627-3. $30. [back to top] TECHNICAL MONOGRAPHS BY SCIENTISTS Poincaré, Henri. New methods of celestial mechanics.
Daniel L. Goroff (editor). Revision by Tom von Foerster, Stephane
Laederich and D. L. Goroff of the 1967 NASA English translation (original
translator not identified). Endnotes by V. I. Arnol'd, M. V. Alekseev,
and G. A. Merman from the Russian translation (1971-72), translated
and excerpted into English by J. V. Barbour. 3 vols. New York:
American Institute of Physics, 1993. ISBN 1-56396-117-2. $195. Part 1, Periodic and asymptotic solutions. xxix + 106 + 316 + 5 pp., bibl., notes, index. Introduction by D. L. Goroff, pp. I1-I107. Part 2, Approximations by series. xxi-xxix + 317-721 + E7-E18 pp., notes, index. Part 3, Integral invariants and asymptotic properties of certain solutions. 723-1077 + E19-E23 + xxi-xxv pp., notes, index. [back to top] COLLECTED WORKS OF SCIENTISTS Einstein, Albert. The collected papers of Albert
Einstein. Volume 3. The Swiss years: Writings, 1909-1911. Martin J.
Klein, A. J. Kox, Jürgen Renn, and Robert Schulmann (editors);
Jed Buchwald, Jean Eisenstaedt, Don Howard, John Norton and Tilman
Sauer (contributing editors). xxv + 644 pp., illus., bibl., index.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-691-08772-5. $85. Includes lecture notes on mechanics, kinetic theory of
heat, electricity and magnetism, fluctuations; papers published in Annalen
der Physik and other journals. Einstein, Albert. The collected papers of Albert
Einstein. Volume 3. The Swiss years: Writings, 1909-1911. English translation.
Anna Beck, translator; Don Howard, consultant. xi + 437
pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-691-10250-3. For contents see previous item. Einstein, Albert. The collected papers of Albert
Einstein. Volume 5. The Swiss years: Correspondence, 1902-1914. Martin
J. Klein, A. J. Kox, and Robert Schulmann (editors); Paolo
Brenni, Klaus Hentschel, Jürgen Renn, and Laura Ruetsche (contributing
editors). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. xlix + 724
pp., bibl., index. ISBN 0-691-03322-6. $85. 519 letters, including correspondence with Michele Besso,
Paul Ehrenfest, Mileva Einstein-Maric, Conrad Habicht, Marcel Grossmann,
Philipp Lenard, Hendrik A. Lorentz, Ernst Mach, Hermann Minkowski,
Arnold Sommerfeld, Johannes Stark, Wilhelm Wien, and others.
Forbush, Scott E. Cosmic rays, the sun and geomagnetism:
The works of Scott E. Forbush. J. A. Van Allen (ed.). 472 pp. Washington,
DC: American Geophysical Union, 1993. ISBN 0-87590-833-0. $33.95. Heisenberg, Werner. Gesammelte Werke/Collected
Works. Series A, Part III: Original Scientific Papers. W. Blum, H.-P.
Dürr and H. Rechenberg (eds.) x + 700 pp. New York: Springer-Verlag,
1993. ISBN 0-387-13848-X. $169. Introductory article, "Heisenberg and Pauli:
Their program of a unified quantum field theory of elementary particles
(1927-1958," by H. Rechenberg, 1-20. Papers on electron theory
of superconductivity (1946-48), meson showers and multiparticle production
(1949-52), unified field theory of elementary particles (1950-75) and
some miscellaneous short papers including "Über die Uranbombe" (colloquium
at Farm Hall, 14 August 1945), 618-36. Bibliography of Heisenberg's publications
by H. Rechenberg, 645-700. Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894). A collection
of articles and addresses. Joseph F. Mulligan (ed.) xxii + 442
pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. ISBN 0-8153-1288-1.
$70. Includes "Introductory biography" by Joseph F. Mulligan,
3-84; English translations of 11 papers by Hertz, and 7 papers about him
by P. Lenard, G. F. FitzGerald, H. v. Helmholtz, and M. Planck;
bibliography of works by and about Hertz. [Yuasa, Toshiko] Shimizu, Seki. Catalog of Toshiko
Yuasa's (1909-1980) archives. 144 pp. Tokyo: Institute for Women's Studies,
Ochanomizu University, 1993. Yuasa was the first woman physicist in Japan; she worked
under F. Joliot-Curie from 1940-44 and continued as a nuclear physics
researcher in France after World War II, playing a role of private ambassador
of science between Japan and France. Zeldovich, Yakov Borisovich. Selected works. J.
P. Ostriker, G. I. Barenblatt and R. A. Sunyaev, editors. Translated
by A. Granik and F. Jackson from the 1985 Russian edition. Volume 2: Particles,
nuclei, and the universe. xiv + 644 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1993. ISBN 0691087423. $99.50. Includes short historical/biographical articles on Einstein, D. A. Frank-Kamenetskii, B. P. Konstantinov, L. D. Landau and an autobiographical note. [back to top]TEXTS AND OTHER WORKS BY SCIENTISTS National Research Council, Committee on the Status and
Research Objectives in the Solid-Earth Sciences. Solid-Earth Sciences
and Society: A Critical Assessment. xx + 346 pp., illus., bibl., index.
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1993. ISBN 0-309-04739-0.
$49.95 The Committee was chaired by Peter J. Wyllie. Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. Particles and policy.
xii + 232 pp., illus. Woodbury, NY: American Institute of Physics, 1994.
ISBN 1-563-96247-0. $29.95. Collection of lectures and papers written for non-specialists,
on elementary-particle physics and arms control; includes "Particle substructure:
A common theme of discovery in this century" (lecture, 1981), 59-90. Sachs, Mendel. Relativity in our time: From physics
to human relations. xii + 162 pp. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1993.
ISBN 0-7484-0117-2 (hc) $65. ISBN 0-7484-0118-0 (paper) $19.95. Historically-oriented popularization of relativity theory. Silk, Joseph. Cosmic enigmas. x + 214 pp. Woodbury,
NY: AIP Press, 1994. ISBN 1-56396-061-3. $29.95 Collection of articles on astronomy. Wheeler, John Archibald. At home in the universe.
x + 371 pp, illus. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1994. ISBN
0-88318-862-7. $24.95. Collection of essays and lectures including "Niels Bohr and nuclear physics," 93-111; "Einstein and other seekers of the wider view," 144-58; "Maria Sklodowska Curie and the world of the small," 161-70; "Hermann Weyl and the unity of knowledge," 171-91. [back to top] REFERENCE WORKS: ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, etc. Grattan-Guinness, I. (ed.) Companion encyclopedia
of the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences. 2 vols. xiii
+ 1-842 pp., xi + 843-1806 pp, bibl., biog. notes, index. London & New
York: Routledge, 1994. ISBN 0-415-03785-9. $175. Includes articles on solid and fluid mechanics, celestial mechanics, ballistics, flight, the pendulum, geodesy, tides, physical optics, heat diffusion, thermodynamics, geophysics, meteorology, acoustics, electricy & magnetism, relativity, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, crystallography, and probability in science. [back to top] BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES Grinstein, Louise S; Rose, Rose K.; Rafailovich, Miriam
H. (eds) Women in chemistry and physics: A biobibliographic sourcebook.
xix + 721 pp. New York: Greenwood, 1993. ISBN 0-313-27382-0. $99.50. Physicists include Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette,
Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg, Darleane Christian Hoffman,
Lise Meitner, Anne Barbara Underhill, Frances Gertrude Wick, Chien-Shiung
Wu. Who's Who in Science and Engineering 1994-1995. 2nd ed.
xvii + 1269 pp. Indexes. New Providence, NJ: Reed Reference Publishing/Marquis
Who's Who, 1994. ISBN 0-8379-5752-4. $249.95 Who's Who in Science in Europe. A Biographical Guide to Science, Technology, Agriculture, and Medicine. 8th ed. 2 vols. 2685 pp. Subject index. Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman Group UK, Ltd. (distributed in USA by Gale Research), 1993. ISBN 0-582-23311-9. $895. [back to top] BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND GUIDES Gluckman, Albert Gerard. The invention and evolution of the electrotechnology to transmit electric signals without wires. An annotated bibliography of 17th, 18th, and 19th century experimental studies of electrostatic induction, spark-gap and lightning discharges, magnetic induction, oscillating circuits, resonance, and electromagnetic wave propagation. 239 pp., index. Washington, DC: Washington Academy of Sciences, 1993. ISBN 0-9607222-4-6. $30. [back to top] MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES Wheaton, Bruce R. Inventory of Sources for history of twentieth-century physics: Report and microfiche index to 700,000 letters. With the assistance of Robin E. Rider. x + 294 pp., figs., bibil., appendix, 62 microfiche. Stuttgart: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 1993. ISBN 3-928186-09-4. $599.
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