Recent Publications of Interest
Compiled by Martha Keyes

American Heritage of Invention & Technology, vol. 16, no. 2 (Fall 2000) includes Robert Zimmerman, "Telstar," 10-17. Vol. 16, no. 3 (Winter 2001) features T. A. Heppenheimer, "What Edward Teller Did," 34-44.

Annalen der Physik, vol. 9, no. 8 (2000) includes Yu Shi, "Early Gedanken Experiments Revisited," 637-648. Vol. 9, nos. 11-12 (2000) is a special issue commemorating the quantum theory centenary. Articles in this issue include M. Cardona, "Phonons: The Second Type of Quantum Excitations Discovered," 865-870; W. Schnell, "Particle Accelerators," 927-935; J. T. Cushing, "The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics through 1935," 939-950; O. Darrigol, "Continuities and Discontinuities in Planck's Akt der Verzweiflung," 951-960; H. Kragh, "Relativity and Quantum Theory from Sommerfeld to Dirac," 961-974; and R. H. Stuewer, "The Compton Effect: Transition to Quantum Mechanics," 975-989.

Annals of Science, vol. 57, no. 4 (October 2000) includes Helge Kragh, "The Chemistry of the Universe: Historical Roots of Modern Cosmochemistry," 353-368. Vol. 58, no. 1 (January 2001) features Peter J. Ramberg and Geert J. Somsen, "The Young J. H. van't Hoff: The Background to the Publication of His 1874 Pamphlet on the Tetrahedral Carbon Atom, Together with a New English Translation," 51-74.

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 34 (1996) includes Evry Schatzman, "The Desire to Understand the World," 1-34. Vol. 35 (1997) features Charles H. Townes, "A Physicist Courts Astronomy," xiii-xliv. Vol. 36 (1998) features H. C. van de Hulst, "Roaming Through Astrophysics," 1-16. Vol. 37 (1999) includes A. G. W. Cameron, "Adventures in Cosmogony," 1-36; Brian Robinson, "Frequency Allocation: The First Forty Years," 65-96; K. J. Johnston and Chr. de Vegt, "Reference Frames in Astronomy," 97-125; and Allan Sandage, "The First 50 Years at Palomar: 1949-1999: The Early Years of Stellar Evolution, Cosmology, and High-Energy Astrophysics," 445-486. Vol. 38 (2000) includes Donald E. Osterbrock, "A Fortunate Life in Astronomy," 1-33; and George Wallerstein and J. B. Oke, "The First 50 Years at Palomar, 1949-1999. Another View: Instruments, Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry," 79-111.

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 25 (1997) features S. Epstein, "The Role of Stable Isotopes in Geochemistries of All Kinds," 1-21. Vol. 27 (1999) includes Carolyn S. Shoemaker, "Ups and Downs in Planetary Science," 1-17.

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, vol. 46 (1996) includes Sam Treiman, "A Life in Particle Physics," 1-30. Vol. 47 (1997) features J. Steinberger, "Early Particles," xiii-xlii. Vol. 49 (1999) features J. David Jackson, "Snapshots of a Physicist's Life," 1-33. Vol. 50 (2000) includes Vernon W. Hughes, "Various Researches in Physics," i-xxxvii.

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 54, no. 4 (2000) includes J. Lacki, "The Early Axiomatizations of Quantum Mechanics: Jordan, von Neumann and the Continuation of Hilbert's Program," 279-318. Vol. 54, no. 5 (2000) includes A. Hessenbruch, "Rutherford's 1901 Experiment on Radiation Energy and His Creation of a Stable Detector," 403-420. Vol. 55, no. 1 (2000) features H. Kragh and B. Carazza, "Classical Behavior of Macroscopic Bodies from Quantum Principles: Early Discussions," 43-56.

Astronomy, vol. 28, no. 11 (November 2000) includes James Trefil, "Putting Stars in Their Place," 62-67. Vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2001) features James Trefil, "Discovering Cosmic Rays," 36-39.

Astronomy & Geophysics, vol. 41, no. 5 (October 2000) features Helen Walker, "A Brief History of Infrared Astronomy," 10-13; and Derek Jones, "The Scientific Value of the Carte du Ciel," 16-20.

Beamline, vol. 30, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2000) is a special issue on the quantum centenary. Articles include Cathryn Carson, "The Origins of the Quantum Theory," 6-19; and Charles H. Townes, "The Light that Shines Straight," 20-28.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 56, no. 6 (November/December 2000) is a special issue on government secrecy. Articles include Peter J. Westwick, "In the Beginning," 43-49. Vol. 57, no. 1 (January/February 2001) includes Richard Moore, "Where Her Majesty's Weapons Were," 58-64.

Cern Courier, vol. 40, no. 6 (July/August 2000) includes John Bahcall and Raymond Davis, "The Beginning of a New Science [Neutrino Astronomy]," 17-21. Vol. 40, no. 7 (September 2000) features Maurice Jacob, "Wolfgang Pauli: Never to be Excluded," 30-32. Vol. 40, no. 9 (November 2000) includes Liz Seubert, "Four Decades in the Proton Stronghold," 29-30.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 31, part 1 (2000) features Seiya Abiko, "Einstein's Kyoto Address: `How I Created the Theory of Relativity'," 1-35; Elisabeth Crawford, "German Scientists and Hitler's Vendetta Against the Nobel Prizes," 37-53; and David H. Devorkin, "Who Speaks for Astronomy? How Astronomers Responded to Government Funding After World War II," 55-92.

Irish Astronomical Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (January 2000) features W. Orchiston, "John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales: A Pioneer Southern Hemisphere Variable Star Observer," 47-54; A. D. Andrews, "Record of a Notable 19^th Century Telescope," 55-64; and M. T. Brück, "Bue Island 1851, A Clouded-Out but Unique Eclipse Expedition," 91-94.

Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 31, no. 105 (November 2000) includes David H. DeVorkin, "Quantum Physics and the Stars (V): Physicists at Mount Wilson Prior to 1922," 301-321; and Klaus Staubermann, "The Trouble with the Instrument: Zöllner's Photometer," 323-338.

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 3, no. 2 (December 2000) features Ian R. Bartky, "Chicago's Dearborn Observatory: A Study in Survival," 93-114; Hermann A. Brück, "Recollections of Life as a Student and a Young Astronomer in Germany in the 1920s, with an Introduction by M. T. Brück," 115-129; and Patricia S. Whitesell, "Nineteenth-century Longitude Determinations in the Great Lakes Region: Government-University Collaboration," 131-157.

Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 41, no. 6 (June 2000) is a special issue on the past and future of mathematical physics. Articles in this issue include Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor S. Ratiu and Jürgen Scheurle, "Reduction Theory and the Lagrange-Routh Equations," 3379-3429; W. Hunziker and I. M. Sigal, "The Quantum N-body Problem," 3448-3510; Barry Simon, "Schrödinger Operators in the Twentieth Century," 3523-3555; R. F. Streater, "Classical and Quantum Probability," 3556-3603; Detlev Buchholz and Rudolf Haag, "The Quest for Understanding in Relativistic Quantum Physics," 3674-3697; Carlo Rovelli, "The Century of the Incomplete Revolution: Searching for General Relativistic Quantum Field Theory," 3776-3800; Bert Schroer, "Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory at the Turn of the Century: Old Principles with New Concepts," 3801-3831; Daniel Kastler, "Noncommutative Geometry and Fundamental Physical Interactions: The Lagrangian Level_Historical Sketch and Description of the Present Situation," 3867-3891; Shahn Majid, "Quantum Groups and Noncommutative Geometry," 3892-3942; Pierre C. Sabatier, "Past and Future of Inverse Problems," 4082-4124; and Pierre Cartier and Cécile DeWitt-Morette, "Functional Integration," 4154-4187.

Minerva, vol. 38, no. 3 (2000) includes Lillian Hoddeson and Adrienne W. Kolb, "The Superconducting Super Collider's Frontier Outpost, 1983-1988," 271-310; and Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov and Wesley Shrum, "How Experiments Begin: The Formation of Scientific Collaborations," 311-348.

Physics Education, vol. 35, no. 6 (November 2000) includes G. Ireson, "A Brief History of Quantum Phenomena," 381-385; and J. Taylor, "Pioneer Women in Nuclear Physics," 446-450.

Physics in Perspective, vol. 2, no. 3 (September 2000) features R. V. Pound, "Weighing Photons, I," 224-268; S. Hong, "Once Upon a Time in Physics When Both Mathematics and Experiment Were Helpless: A Strange Life of Voltaic Contact Potential," 269-292; and J. D. Hamblin, "Science in Isolation: American Marine Geophysics Research, 1950-1968," 293-312. Vol. 2, no. 4 (December 2000) includes I. Unna, "The Genesis of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem," 336-380; H. Kragh, "An Unlikely Connection: Geochemistry and Nuclear Structure," 381-397; and S. D'Agostino, "On the Difficulties of the Transition from Maxwell's and Hertz's Pure-Field Theories to Lorentz's Electron," 398-410.

Physics Today, vol. 53, no. 10 (October 2000) features Valentine L. Telegdi, "Szilard as Inventor: Accelerators and More," 25-28; and José Luis Morán-López, "Physics in Latin America Comes of Age," 38-43. Vol. 53, no. 12 (December 2000) includes Mark F. Moynihan, "The Scientific Community and Intelligence Collection," 51-56. Vol. 54, no. 2 (February 2001) features John F. Waymouth, "Physics for Profit and Fun," 38-42; Karl von Meyenn and Engelbert Schucking, "Wolfgang Pauli," 43-48; and Roy Glauber, "A Remembrance of Pauli in 1950," 49. Vol. 54, no. 3 (March 2001) includes Alfred Bader and Leonard Parker, "Joseph Loschmidt, Physicist and Chemist," 45-50.

Physics_Uspekhi, vol. 43, no. 6 (June 2000) includes V. L. Ginzburg, "Superconductivity: The Day Before Yesterday—Yesterday—Today—Tomorrow," 573-583. Vol. 43, no. 9 (September 2000) features M. Ya. Shchelev, "Femtosecond Photoelectronics—Past, Present, and Future," 931-946; and Yu. I. Krivonosov, "S. I. Vavilov's Manuscript Letter to Stalin," 949-952.

La Recherche, no. 335 (October 2000) features Michel Pinault, "Frédéric Joliot-Curie, chercheur tourmenté," 56-60; and Etienne Klein, "Ettore Majorana, le génial disparu," 62-63. No. 338 (January 2001) includes Etienne Klein, "Paul Ehrenfest le Socrate des quanta," 61-63.

Science in Russia, no. 4 (July/August 2000) includes M. Panasyuk, "Breakthrough Into Outer Space," 60-66. No. 6 (November/December 2000) features M. Deyev, "Mariner, Explorer [N. N. Zubov]," 80-86.

Social Studies of Science, vol. 30, no. 4 (August 2000) includes Charles Thorpe and Steven Shapin, "Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer?," 545-590. Vol. 30, no. 5 (October 2000) features W. Patrick McCray, "Large Telescopes and the Moral Economy of Recent Astronomy," 685-711.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 31B, no. 4 (December 2000) is a special issue on theoretical chemistry. Articles include Helge Kragh, "Conceptual Changes in Chemistry: The Notion of a Chemical Element, ca. 1900-1925," 435-450; B. S. Park, "The Contexts of Simultaneous Discovery: Slater, Pauling, and the Origins of Hybridisation," 451-474; Mary Jo Nye, "Physical and Biological Modes of Thought in the Chemistry of Linus Pauling," 475-491; Andreas Karachalios, "On the Making of Quantum Chemistry in Germany," 493-510; Ana Simões and Kostas Gavroglu, "Quantum Chemistry in Great Britain: Developing a Mathematical Framework for Quantum Chemistry," 511-548; Jeffry Ramsey, "Of Parameters and Principles: Producing Theory in Twentieth Century Physics and Chemistry," 549-567; and Valeria Mosini, "A Brief History of the Theory of Resonance and of its Interpretation," 569-581.

VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [Problems in the History of Science and Technology], Moscow, [in Russian] no. 2 (2000) includes I. Reif, "Remarks on the Physicist's Fate [L. I. Gudzenko]," 18-34; and Iu. I. Krivonosov, "Cosmic Studies and Secrecy (S. I. Vavilov's Letter to Stalin)," 45-48. No. 3 (2000) features A. V. Kessenikh, "Untypical Representative: Aleksandr Armand in the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry, 1933-1937," 3-15; G. A. Goncharov, "Distorted Drafts of Flerov's Letters, 1941-1942," 35-56; and G. M. Idlis, "The Teacher: In Memory of Academician A. D. Aleksandrov (1912-1999)," 82-96.

Others: Eisui Uematsu, Tatsuoki Takeda, and Sigeko Nisio, "History of Nuclear Fusion Research in Japan," Historia Scientiarum, vol. 10, no. 1 (July 2000): 16-45; David Goodstein, "In Defense of Robert Andrews Millikan," American Scientist, vol. 89, no. 1 (January/February 2001): 54-60; Thomas Hockey, "Recognizing Jupiter's Great Red Spot," Mercury, vol. 29, no. 5 (September/October 2000): 18-25; Helge Kragh, "Max Planck: The Reluctant Revolutionary," Physics World, vol. 13, no. 12 (December 2000): 31-35; Grace Marmor Spruch, "Nobel Tics," The American Scholar, vol. 69 (Autumn 2000): 97-106; Douglas D. Osheroff, "The Nature of Discovery in Physics," American Journal of Physics, vol. 69, no.1 (January 2001): 26-37; Max Tegmark and John Archibald Wheeler, "100 Years of Quantum Mysteries," Scientific American, vol. 284, no. 2 (February 2001): 68-75; and P. Weingart, A. Engels, and P. Pansegrau, "Risks of Communication: Discourses on Climate Change in Science, Politics, and the Mass Media," Public Understanding of Science, vol. 9, no. 3 (July 2000): 261-283.

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