Recent Publications of Interest
Compiled by Martha Keyes

Annals of Science, vol. 59, no. 1 (January 2002) includes Robert H. Kargon and Scott G. Knowles, "Knowledge for Use: Science, Higher Learning, and America's New Industrial Heartland, 1880-1915," 1-20. Vol. 59, no. 2 (April 2002) features David Philip Miller, "`Distributing Discovery' between Watt and Cavendish: a Reassessment of the Nineteenth-Century `Water Controversy'," 149-178. Vol. 59, no. 3 (July 2002) includes Bruno Carazza and Nadia Robotti, "Explaining Atomic Spectra within Classical Physics: 1897-1913," 299-320.

Astronomy, vol. 30, no. 1 (January 2002) features Tony Ortega, "Red Scare at Harvard," 42-47; and Lucy Jago, "The Making of an Aurora," 72-77. Vol. 30, no. 4 (April 2002) includes Steve Nadis, "Cosmic Inflation Comes of Age," 27-32. Vol. 30, no. 7 (July 2002) includes C. Renée James, "Edward [Pickering] and Mina [Fleming]," 46-50. Vol. 30, no. 9 (September 2002) features David J. Eicher, "Beyond Cosmos," 34-39.

Astronomy & Geophysics, vol. 42, no. 4 (August 2001) includes Ragbir Bhathal, "Women Astronomers in Australia," 29-30. Vol. 43, no. 1 (February 2002) features John McFarland, "Dreyer's Sesquicentennial," 22. Vol. 43, no. 4 (August 2002) features John D. Barrow, Cosmology: A Matter of All and Nothing," 8-15.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 58, no. 2 (March/April 2002) includes Duane Bratt, "Canada's Nuclear Schizophrenia," 44-50. Vol. 58, no. 3 (May/June 2002) features William Sweet, "The Bohr Letters: No More Uncertainty," 20-27.

CERN Courier, vol. 42, no. 1 (January/February 2002) includes Elisabetta Durante Romano, "The INFN Marks Half a Century of Research," 26-28. Vol. 42, no. 3 (April 2002) features Gordon Fraser, "How U.S. Physicists First Came to Work at CERN," 13-15. Vol. 42, no. 4 (May 2002) features Gordon Fraser, "How CERN Became Popular with U.S. Physicists," 15-17. Vol. 42, no. 5 (June 2002) includes Wolfgang Kummer, "Victor Weisskopf: Looking Back on a Distinguished Career," 28-31. Vol. 42, no. 6 (July/August 2002) features Gordon Fraser, "The Biology of Physics," 13-14.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 32, part 1 (2001) includes Robert P. Crease, "Anxious History: The High Flux Beam Reactor and Brookhaven National Laboratory," 41-56; John Krige, "Felix Bloch and the Creation of a `Scientific Spirit' at CERN," 57-69; Stuart W. Leslie, "Blue Collar Science: Bringing the Transistor to Life in the Lehigh Valley," 71-113; Ulf Von Rauchhaupt, "Colorful Clouds and Unruly Rockets: Early Research Programs at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics," 115-124; Michael Riordan, "A Tale of Two Cultures: Building the Superconducting Super Collider, 1988-1993," 125-144; Robert W. Seidel, "The National Laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission in the Early Cold War," 145-162; and Catherine Westfall, "Collaborating Together: The Stories of TPC, UA1, CDF, and CLAS," 163-178.

History and Technology, vol. 17, no. 3 (2001) includes Sylvia Katharine Kraemer, "Federal Intellectual Property Policy and the History of Technology: The Case of NASA Patents," 183-216; and Helen M. Rozwadowski, "Technology and Ocean-Scape: Defining the Deep Sea in Mid-Nineteenth Century," 217-247. Vol. 18, no. 1 (March 2002) features Joanna S. Ploeger, "The Art of Science at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: The Rhetoric of Aesthetics and Humanism in the National Laboratory System in the Late 1960s," 23-49. Vol. 18, no. 2 (June 2002) includes Sabine Höhler, "Depth Records and Ocean Volumes: Ocean Profiling by Sounding Technology, 1850-1930," 119-154.

ISIS, vol. 93, no. 1 (March 2002) features Jacob Darwin Hamblin, "The Navy's `Sophisticated' Pursuit of Science: Undersea Warfare, the Limits of Internationalism, and the Utility of Basic Research, 1945-1956," 1-27. Vol. 93, no. 2 (June 2002) includes David Kaiser, "Nuclear Democracy: Political Engagement, Pedagogical Reform, and Particle Physics in Postwar America," 229-268.

Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 33, no. 110 (February 2002) includes Michael Hoskin, "The Leviathan of Parsontown [Rosse's reflecting telescope]: Ambitions and Achievements," 57-70. Vol. 33, no. 111 (May 2002) is a special issue commemorating Donald H. Menzel. Articles in this issue include Donald E. Osterbrock, "Young Don Menzel's Amazing Adventures at Lick Observatory," 95-118; David DeVorkin, "Menzel at Princeton," 119-131; David Layzer, "Atoms, Stars, and Nebulae: Remembering Donald H. Menzel," 133-138; Jay M. Pasachoff, "Menzel and Eclipses," 139-156; Thomas J. Bogdan, "Donald Menzel and the Beginnings of the High Altitude Observatory," 157-192; and Ruth Prelowski Liebowitz, "Donald Menzel and the Creation of the Sacramento Peak Observatory," 193-211.

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 5, no. 1 (June 2002) features Wayne Orchiston and Bruce Slee, "Ingenuity and Initiative in Australian Radio Astronomy: The Dover Heights `Hole-in-the-Ground' Antenna," 21-34; and Adrián Brunini and Octavio Ismael Miloni, "The Contribution of José Luis Sérsic to Celestial Mechanics," 35-40.

Mercury, vol. 30, no. 5 (September/October 2001) includes Marcia Bartusiak, "Pas de Deux [binary neutron stars]," 17-22. Vol. 31, no. 4 (July/August 2002) features Donald E. Osterbrock, "Walter Baade: Master Observer," 32-41.

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 56, no. 1 (January 2002) features B. Bleaney, "Two Oxford Science Professors, F. Soddy and J.S.E. Townsend," 83-88; J.N. Murrell and N. Grobert, "The Centenary of Einstein's First Scientific Paper," 89-94; and P. Day, "Molecular Magnets: The Prehistory," 95-103. Vol. 56, no. 2 (May 2002) includes R. Sharp, "Some Final Thoughts of Sir John Herschel, F.R.S.," 183-186; and G.V.R. Born, "The Wide-Ranging Family History of Max Born," 219-262.

Osiris, vol. 16 (2001) is entitled Science in Theistic Contexts. Articles in this issue include Michael J. Crowe, "Astronomy and Religion (1780-1915): Four Case Studies Involving Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life," 209-226; and Bernard Lightman, "Victorian Sciences and Religions: Discordant Harmonies," 343-366.

Perspectives on Science, vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 2001) includes Kelly Hamilton, "Some Philosophical Consequences of Wittgenstein's Aeronautical Research," 1-37. Vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer 2001) features Christoph Hoffmann, "The Design of Disturbance: Physics Institutes and Physics Research in Germany, 1870-1910," 173-195.

Physics in Perspective, vol. 4, no. 1 (February 2002) features E. McMullin, "The Origins of the Field Concept in Physics," 13-39; A. Franklin, "William Wilson and the Absorption of Beta Rays," 40-77; and R. Jackiw and A. Shimony, "The Depth and Breadth of John Bell's Physics," 78-116. Vol. 4, no. 2 (May 2002) includes C.A. Gearhart, "Planck, the Quantum, and the Historians," 170-215; and S. D'Agostino, "From Rational Numbers to Dirac's Bra and Ket: Symbolic Representation of Physical Laws," 216-229.

Physics Today, vol. 55, no. 6 (June 2002) is a special issue entitled Portraits of Fermi. Articles in this issue include Hans A. Bethe with Henry Bethe, "Enrico Fermi in Rome, 1931-32," 28-29; Silvan S. Schweber, "Enrico Fermi and Quantum Elecrodynamics, 1929-32," 31-36; Valentine L. Telegdi, "Enrico Fermi in America," 38-43; and Roy Glauber, "An Excursion with Enrico Fermi, 14 July 1954," 44-46. Vol. 55, no. 8 (August 2002) features Eugen Merzbacher, "The Early History of Quantum Tunneling," 44-49.

Physics-Uspekhi, vol. 45, no. 1 (January 2002) features I.I. Sobel'man, "On the Theory of Light Scattering in Gases," 75-80; and E.L. Fe nberg, "The Forefather (About Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam," 81-100. Vol. 45, no. 4 (April 2002) is a special issue celebrating the 40^th anniversary of the discovery of high-density silica (stishovite). Included in this issue is S. M. Stishov, "The Discovery Story," 433-435.

Physics World, vol. 15, no. 1 (January 2002) includes Jacques Flouquet and Alexandre Buzdin, "Ferromagnetic Superconductors," 41-46. Vol. 15, no. 5 (May 2002) features Hitoshi Murayama, "The Origin of Neutrino Mass," 35-39. Vol. 15, no. 6 (June 2002) features Alexei Kojevnikov, "Lev Landau: Physicist and Revolutionary," 35-39. Vol. 15, no. 8 (August 2002) includes Helge Kragh, "Paul Dirac: Seeking Beauty," 27-31; and Robert Marc Friedman, "Quantum Theory and the Nobel Prize," 33-38.

Science in Context, vol. 14, no. 3 (Autumn 2001) includes Jutta Schickore, "The Task of Explaining Sight Helmholtz's Writings on Vision as a Test Case for Models of Science Popularization," 397-417; David Jalal Hyder, "Physiological Optics and Physical Geometry," 419-456; and Gerhard Heinzmann, "The Foundations of Geometry and the Concept of Motion: Helmholtz and Poincaré," 457-470.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 33B, no. 1 (March 2002) features Katherine A. Brading, "Which Symmetry? Noether, Weyl, and Conservation of Electric Charge," 3-22; Asher Peres, "Karl Popper and the Copenhagen Interpretation," 23-34; and Helge Kragh and Simon Rebsdorf, "Before Cosmophysics: E.A. Milne on Mathematics and Physics," 35-50. Vol. 33B, no. 2 (June 2002) includes Jeroen Van Dongen, "Einstein and the Kaluza-Klein Particle," 185-210; Laurie M. Brown, "The Compton Effect as One Path to QED," 211-249; and Alexander Pechenkin, "The Concept of Self-Oscillations and the Rise of Synergetics Ideas in the Theory of Nonlinear Oscillations," 269-295.

VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [Problems in the History of Science and Technology] [in Russian] no. 1 (2001) features M. Walker (translated by I.A. Belozerova, afterword by E.I. Kolchinskii), "Science under National Socialism," 3-30; I.S. Dmitriev, "Scientific Discovery in Statu Nascendi: The Case of Mendeleev's Periodic Law," 31-82; and A.A. Kas'ian and S.M. Ponomarev, "Provincial Echo of Great Disturbances: The Case of G.S. Gorelik at Gorky State University," 97-110.

Others: Ioannis E. Antoniou, "Caratheodory and the Foundations of Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics," Foundations of Physics, vol. 32, no. 4 (April 2002): 627-641; David Berlinski, "Einstein and Gödel," Discover, vol. 23, no. 3 (March 2002): 38-43; Cathryn Carson and Michael Gubser, "Science Advising and Science Policy in Post-War West Germany: The Example of the Deutscher Forschungsrat," Minerva, vol. 40, no. 2 (2002): 147-179; O. Darrigol, "Between Hydrodynamics and Elasticity Theory: The First Five Births of the Navier-Stokes Equation," Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 56, no. 2 (January 2002): 95-150; Phillip Deery, "Scientific Freedom and Post-war Politics: Australia, 1945-55," Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 13, no. 1 (2000): 1-18; Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões, "Preparing the Ground for Quantum Chemistry in Great Britain: The Work of the Physicist R.H. Fowler and the Chemist N.V. Sidgwick," British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 35, no. 125 (June 2002): 187-212; Salvatore Matteo Giacomuzzi, Gerhard Holzmüller, and Gerhard Huemer, "Ettore Majorana (1906-1938). Eine Bestandsaufnahme 64 Jahre nach seinem Verschwinden," Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, vol. 25, no. 2 (June
2002): 137-148; Peter Groenewegen and Lois Peters, "The Emergence and Change of Materials Science and Engineering in the United States," Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 27, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 112-133; Allyn Jackson, "The IAS School of Mathematics," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 49, no. 8 (September 2002): 896-904; Andreas Kitzmann, "Pioneer Spirits and the Lure of Technology: Vannevar Bush's Desk, Theodor Nelson's World," Configurations, vol. 9, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 441-459; John Perlin, "Solar Power: The Slow Revolution," American Heritage of Invention & Technology, vol. 18, no. 1 (Summer 2002): 20-25; Binyamin Pinkus, "Atomic Power to Israel's Rescue: French-Israeli Nuclear Cooperation, 1949-1957," Israel Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 104-138; William Sheehan and Thomas A. Dobbins, "Lowell and the Spokes of Venus," Sky & Telescope, vol. 104, no. 1 (July 2002): 99-103; Ruth Lewin Sime, "Lise Meitner: A 20^th Century Life in Physics," Endeavour, vol. 26, no. 1 (March 2002): 27-31; Rajinder Singh, "Sir C.V. Raman and His Contacts with Hungarian Scientists," Indian Journal of History of Science, vol. 37, no. 2 (June 2002): 175-191; Hugh R. Slotten, "Satellite Communications, Globalization, and the Cold War," Technology and Culture, vol. 43, no. 2 (April 2002): 315-350; Steven Weinberg, "La physique peut-elle tout explique?," La Recherche, no. 349 (January 2002): 25-31; C.M.W. Wilson, "Meteorologist's ProfileBalfour Stewart, FRS," Weather, vol. 57, no. 4 (April 2002): 139-143; Haruyo Yoshida, "Aikitu Tanakadate and the Controversy over Vertical Electrical Currents in Geomagnetic Research," Earth Sciences History, vol. 20, no. 2 (2001): 156-177.

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