Photos and Quotes included in the
Spring 2006 Issue of the CHP Newsletter
Click directly on any photo to see a larger image.
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| Fred Hoyle lecturing at Rice University, March 1975. Rice University, March 1975. Photo courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Clayton Collection. |
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This mystery photo was mis-identified in our collection
as Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. It was donated to us by
E.
Scott Barr, and he obtained it from the Smithsonian Institution. Can
you identify who is in the photo?
If
so, please let us know: send e-mail to photos@aip.org,
call 301-209-3184, or write AIP History Center, One Physics Ellipse,
College Park, MD 20740. |
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Nobody could think of extemporizing
lessons on, say, Greek history or the history of German literature, but
one finds it quite natural that a professor of mathematics for instance,
starts a series of
lectures
on the history of mathematics without any serious preparation. This
is another proof of the low esteem in which History of Science is held.
—George
Sarton, 1916 |
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| Eclipse study of the Bellingshausen Eclipse, May 30, 1965. L-R: Spencer Weart, Jim Faller, John Malville, Jack Brandt, Jim Brault, Jack Eddy, John Jefferies, Frank Orrall, Paul Kellogg, Tau Mairau (with bird and bottle of Hinano), M. Drollet (with Lynda), Dave Hultquist, Jim Rosen, Bill Curtis, Bill Varbel (Cook), Serge Korff, Don Trumbo, Bill Livingston (not present). |
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Historians of science often point with pride to the
rapid growth of our field during the last three
decades.
We must not conceal from ourselves, however, that, relative to the vast
intellectual terrain for which we hold scholarly responsibility, we
remain thinly scattered settlers. We have established a few well-populated
strongholds, beyond which we can claim only widely dispersed frontier
outposts.
—Frederick
L. Holmes |
 Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus received the 2005 11th Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment. |
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Historical materials can be useful, even indispensable,
in science education provided—and this is a major qualification
— that they are used to inculcate science, not history of sociology.
John Heilbron ["History as a Collaborator of Science"] |
