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Physics: past, present, future

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Biographical
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Journal
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://physicsweb.org/article/world/12/12/14#11

Author: 
Physics Web
Excerpt: 

In asking who were the greatest physicists, we were deliberately vague about whether we were referring to the past 100 years, the past millennium, or simply all of time. If we had restricted ourselves to the 20th century, we would have overlooked Newton and Galileo, all the great physicists of the 19th century, and the discovery of X-rays, radioactivity and the electron in the late 1890s. And if we had restricted ourselves to the past millennium, we would have ignored Aristotle, Archimedes and others.

Annotation: 

This article describes the result of a survey of 250 physicists. Questions asked included 'what are the three most important discoveries' and 'who are the five most important physicists of all time.' The related links (on the right side of the page) provide access to full text articles about Plank, Boltzman, Rutherford, Einstein, and Newton, in addition to a biography of John Bell and a review of a biography of Heisenberg. These articles are not technical in nature; rather they are popular culture as practiced by physicists. This site may prove useful to historians of physics.

Promoting Science Through America's Colonial Press

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Biographical
  • Earth Sciences
  • Journal
  • Life Sciences
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/science.html

Author: 
David L. Ferro
Excerpt: 

This paper explores the dissemination and development of science in colonial America. Specifically, I examine a general periodical (or newspaper), the Pennsylvania Gazette, in the years 1729 - 1765. I impose the modern definition of science to describe a style of enlightenment natural inquiry which would include natural philosophy, naturalism, technics, medicine, and husbandry, among others. I utilize three questions:
What was the role of the Pennsylvania Gazette in the 'popularization' and accessibility of science?
How did the Pennsylvania Gazette serve the interests of the public and of those doing science?
What was the image of natural philosophy that was promoted in the Pennsylvania Gazette?

History of Psychiatry (Journal)

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Journal
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.alphaacademic.co.uk/hop.htm

Author: 
Dr. G.E. Berrios
Excerpt: 

A quarterly journal, (March, June, etc.) publishing research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures. An important feature is the publication (and translation into English where necessary) of classic texts in in psychiatric history. Most issues carry book reviews.

Memories of Professor Iwasawa

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Biographical
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Journal
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.math.washington.edu/~greenber/mem.html

Author: 
Ralph Greenberg
Excerpt: 

I still remember very clearly the first time that I met Professor Iwasawa. It was in 1967 when he had just become a faculty member at Princeton University. I was a second year graduate student and had decided that I was ready to take the General Examination. Students were not told in advance which faculty members were to be on their examining committee. I had hoped that Professor Iwasawa would be on my committee and, on the day of the examination, when I was told that the committee was waiting for me in his office, I knew that my hope would be fulfilled. It was at that time that I first met him.

Dyes in History and Archaeology

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Journal
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/dha/index.html

Author: 
Journal of Dyes in History and Archaeology
Excerpt: 

This is the name of the journal which contains papers presented at the annual meetings of Dyes in History and Archaeology, formerly known as the Association of Researchers into Dyes in History and Archaeology

History-ideas: The history of ideas

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Journal
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/

Author: 
Project Muse- Journal of History of Ideas
Excerpt: 

The Journal of the History of Ideas examines the evolution of ideas and their influence on historical developments. An interdisciplinary publication, JHI covers several fields of historical study including the history of philosophy, literature, thenatural and social sciences, religion, the arts, and culture in general. As the official publication of the Society for the History of Ideas, JHI promotes greater collaboration among scholars in all provinces of cultural and intellectual history.

Journal for Multimedia History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Journal
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/

Author: 
SUNY Albany
Excerpt: 

A 'virtual' journal in an academic world that has already rendered itself virtual? How appropriate!" That was how one colleague described our project—to publish a journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia technologies to merge audio, video, graphics, and text into a form that can only be communicated on the World Wide Web (WWW) or on CD-ROM/DVD mediums. She missed the point. It was precisely because so much of what we were doing as professional historians seemed so isolating that we wanted to "get out on the Web," to reach not only academicians, but an entire universe of interested readers. We wanted to bring serious historical scholarship and pedagogy under the scrutiny of amateurs and professionals alike, to utilize the promise of digital technologies to expand history's boundaries, merge its forms, and promote and legitimate innovations in teaching and research that we saw emerging all around us. So it was gratifying to find our skeptics in the minority and many lauding our efforts. A number of administrators at the University at Albany generously supported our venture, providing us with critically needed start-up funds, and thus helping to give birth to The Journal for MultiMedia History (JMMH). Our own History Department was equally munificent. So we are here, and as difficult as it was to get this first issue out, we intend to stay.

Human Nature

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Educational
  • Journal
  • Life Sciences
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.human-nature.com/

Author: 
Dr. Ian Pitchford
Excerpt: 

Human Nature Review is a significant source of analysis and commentary for readers at leading universities and research institutes in over one hundred and sixty countries and is one of the most popular sites on the whole world wide web.Our goal is to bring into communication the variety of approaches to understanding human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might. We aim to act as host to original work and to seek to create an enabling space, a forum for constructive (including constructively critical) discussion and critiques of the terms of reference and assumptions of various approaches to the understanding of people as individuals, in groups, in institutions, in societies and as political and ideological beings.

Foundations of Chemistry

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Journal
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1386-4238

Author: 
Dr. Charles Erkelens
Excerpt: 

Foundations of Chemistry Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry ... an innovative international journal providing an interdisciplinary forum for conceptual and fundamental issues in chemistry ...

On the Philosophy of Technology, Past and Future

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Journal
  • Life Sciences
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Physical Sciences
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v1_n1n2/pitt.html

Author: 
Joseph C. Pitt
Excerpt: 

It is true that work in the philosophy of technology predates the founding of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), and probably would have managed to struggle on even if SPT never came into existence. Philosophers and social thinkers did think and write about technology prior to 1975. Plato directed attention to crafts, Galileo to the media scientia, Heidegger to whatever. But I am not so sure that work in this area would have developed in the way it has without SPT. The Society for Philosophy and Technology has contributed in significant ways to the field known as the philosophy of technology, but not always positively. Further, today, work in the philosophy of technology is at a crossroads. The direction SPT takes will make the difference between seeing the philosophy of technology flourish or seeing it become marginalized. The marginalization of the philosophy of technology is a theme I have articulated on a number of occasions. I will rehearse some of the old concerns below. But my old worries are not the main worry addressed here. What I want to direct our attention to is the fact that philosophers of science are moving rapidly into our territory, and they are doing so without the baggage we in SPT have carried for so long. If we don't get our act together, we may find that we have been scooped in a fundamental way, one which removes from our purview an area of research we should be moving into, leaving us with only the irrelevant leftovers of our past efforts. But before I play Cassandra, let me give some of my personal perspective on the developments of the last twenty years, good and bad.

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