Recent Publications of Interest
Compiled by W. Patrick McCray

Annals of Science, vol. 59, no. 4 (October 2002) includes Deborah Jean Warner, “Political Geodesy: the Army, the Air Force, and the World Geodetic System of 1960,” 391-408; Alexei Kojevnikov, “The Last Century of Physics,” 419-422.

The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 35, part 4 (December 2002) includes Alistair Sponsel, “Constructing a ‘Revolution in Science’: the Campaign to Promote a Favourable Reception for the 1919 Solar Eclipse Experiments,” 439-468.

Centaurus, vol. 44, no. 1-2 (2002) includes H. Kragh, “The Victorian Theory of Everything,” 32-114; H. Konno, “Ritz’s Discovery of the Lyman Series before 1913 and Lyman’s Indifference to the Bohr Theory,” 127-139.

CERN Courier, vol. 42, no. 7 (September 2002) includes Richard Dalitz, “Paul Dirac: A Genius in the History of Physics,” 15-18. Vol. 42, no. 9 (November 2002) includes Nina Byers, “Physicists and the Decision to Drop the Bomb,” 25-31. Vol. 42, no. 10 (December 2002) includes Ray Davis, “Memories of a Nobel Laureate,” 15-18.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 33, part 1 (2002) includes José M. Sánchez-Ron, “International Relations in Spanish Physics from 1900 to the Cold War,” 3-32; Alexis De Greiff, “The Tale of Two Peripheries: The Creation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,” 33-60; Kenji Ito, “Values of ‘Pure Science’: Nishina Yoshio’s Wartime Discourse Between Nationalism and Physics, 1940-1945,” 61-86; Abha Sur, “Scientism and Social Justice: Meghnad Saha’s Critique of the State of Science in India,” 87-106; Dong-Won Kim, “The Conflict Between the Image and Role of Physics in South Korea,” 107-130; David Kaiser, “Cold War Requisitions, Scientific Manpower, and the Production of American Physicists After World War II,” 131-160; Alexei Kojevnikov, “David Bohm and Collective Movement,” 161-192.

History of Science, vol. 40, part 4, no. 130 (December 2002) includes Stephan Mason, “Galileo’s Scientific Discoveries, Cosmological Confrontations, and the Aftermath,” 377-406; A. Rupert Hall, “Pitfalls in the Editing of Newton’s Papers,” 407-424; Michael Hoskin, “Caroline Herschel: Assistant Astronomer or Astronomical Assistant?,” 425-444.

History and Technology, vol. 18, no. 3 (2002) includes Cathryn Carson, “Nuclear Energy Development in Postwar West Germany: Struggles over Cooperation in the Federal Republic’s First Reactor Station,” 233-270.

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 5, no. 2 (December 2002) includes Ronald A. Bracewell, “The Discovery of Strong Extragalactic Polarization Using the Parkes Radio Telescope,” 107-114; Bjørn Ragnvald Petterson, “Christopher Hansteen and the First Observatory at the University of Oslo, 1815-28,” 123-134; Paul D. Shankland and W. Orchiston, “Nineteenth Century Astronomy at the U.S. Naval Academy,” 165-180.

Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 33, part 4, no. 113 (November 2002) includes Paul Charbonneau, “The Rise and Fall of the First Solar Cycle Model,” 351-372.

Osiris, vol. 17, 2nd Ser. (2002) includes Jessica Wang, “Scientists and the Problem of the Public in Cold War America, 1945-1960,” 323-350.

Science in Context, vol. 15, no. 2 (June 2002), a special issue on science in the Soviet Union, includes Alexei Kojevnikov, “The Great War, the Russian Civil War, and the Invention of Big Science,” 239-276; Konstantin Ivanov, “Science after Stalin: Forging a New Image of Soviet Science,” 317-338.

Sky & Telescope, vol. 105, no. 1 (January 2003) includes Nick Kanas, “From Ptolemy to the Renaissance: How Classical Astronomy Survived the Dark Ages,” 50-69.

Social Studies of Science, vol. 32, no. 3 (June 2002) includes Mark Winskel, “Autonomy’s End: Nuclear Power and the Privatization of the British Electricity Supply Industry,” 439-468.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 34B, no. 1 (March 2003) includes Sherrilyn Roush, “Copernicus, Kant, and the Anthropic Cosmological Principles,” 5-36; Jochen Büttner, Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel, “Exploring the Limits of Classical Physics: Planck, Einstein, and the Structure of a Scientific Revolution,” 37-60.

Physics in Perspective, vol. 4, no. 3 includes A. Simões, “Dirac’s Claim and the Chemists,” 253-266; J. Jenkins, “G.E.M. Jauncey and the Compton Effect,” 320-332; J. Teichmann, M. Eckert, S. Wolff, “[The Physical Tourist:] Physicists and Physics in Munich,” 333-359. Vol. 4, no. 4 (December 2002) includes E.D. Hoffleit, “Pioneering Women in the Spectral Classification on Stars,” 370-398; R. Singh, “C.V. Raman and the Discovery of the Raman Effect,” 399-420; D.C. Cassidy, “New Light on Copenhagen and the German Nuclear Project,” 447-455.

Physics Today, vol. 56, no. 2 (February 2003) includes Kurt Gottfried and J. David Jackson, “Mozart and Quantum Mechanics: An Appreciation of Victor Weisskopf,” 43-47. Vol. 56, no. 1 (January 2003) includes Juan G. Roederer, “Early Cosmic-Ray Research in Argentina,” 32-37. Vol. 56, no. 3 (March 2003) includes Lynne Osman Eilkin, “Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix,” 42-49.

Physics World, vol. 15, no. 12 (December 2002) includes Mark McCartney, “William Thomson: king of Victorian physics,” 25-30. Vol. 16, no. 1 (January 2003) includes Gary Taubes, “Carlo Rubbia and the Discovery of the W and Z,” 23-28.

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